Forum: Photography


Subject: TinEye image search engine.

inshaala opened this issue on May 21, 2008 · 26 posts


inshaala posted Fri, 23 May 2008 at 7:55 AM

I dont think the image does get stored itself. The location might be remembered...  I'd think they would have copyright problems if they did store the images and essentially rip them off sites so they could search them. Here is an exert from the FAQ:

How does TinEye work?

TinEye uses sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms to find your image on the web without the use of metadata or watermarks.

TinEye instantly analyzes your query image to create a compact digital signature or ‘fingerprint’ for it. TinEye searches for your image on the web by comparing its fingerprint to the fingerprint of every single other image in the TinEye search index.

...so it looks like the fingerprint is stored, not the image itself. Makes sense considering the huge amount of images that they have in their index...

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