Tineye, you’ve probably never heard of it. And, technically, the public in general won’t hear of it for a little while longer. Tineye is a search engine that is currently in beta testing with over 500 users who are hacking away at it to see how this fascinating little search engine will hold up to real-world tests.
What is Tineye? Well let me put it this way. Instead of searching for an image using the already well-known google method of typing in words and finding photos that have those same words in their file name or comments section, Tineye will actually compare the an image you furnish it with other actual images based on pixels similarity and configuration. Read the rest of this entry »