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A Picture Search Engine That's a Must for Online Daters

This interesting suggestion about a site that provides reverse image search was emailed to me by regular site visitor R.F.  I can see it being of great value to others.  The idea is simple: provide a picture or image and the search engine will locate that and similar images on the web. - Gizmo

"Gizmo very seldom am I blown away.  But recently I found TinEye.com picture search engine and was simply amazed.  Credit actually goes to another site I frequent for informing me about this search engine (Raymondscc).  But for me particularly it has helped a lot.  The program still is in its beta stages but it searches millions of sites for where duplicate photos are and gives you the links. 

Where is this most helpful?  For me, it has been dating sites and "friends" who send pictures of themselves through email.  You can search the picture they send and see if it is actually them or a fake. 

I received some photos which were cropped (the face was cropped) from a friend who said they were her.  I uploaded the cropped picture and did a search.  The search returned the entire picture with the face revealed.  Sadly to say, it was not the person who sent it. 
 
http://tineye.com
 

 

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by Atei (not verified) on 26. March 2011 - 20:55  (68621)

Hey, it's free and it works. What more could anyone want? It still can't find images as often as it comes up empty, but it seems to be getting better. I like it a lot.

by Tai (not verified) on 26. March 2011 - 18:37  (68616)

It does NOT do face recognition or anything amazing like that. All it's doing is a search on the file name and maybe a few other file properties related searches. But NO face recognition, so it's not really that great. What it CAN do is see if the pictures you have are being used in other profiles etc. ie If someone takes pictures in a profile somewhere in Russia and sends them to you saying it is them somewhere in the States etc.

by Nora Brinley (not verified) on 26. March 2011 - 0:12  (68578)

..nice catch.

Does it only do 'faces', .. I wonder?

by mr6n8 on 4. October 2009 - 11:08  (33897)

TinEye is now available as a Firefox add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8922

by Anonymous on 18. September 2009 - 23:49  (32936)

A good idea,but not so good at the moment. It seems about 90%, if not more, of my searches can't be found. Before you ask I'm not using it to find the source of porn.

They need to build up their index extensivley before it is much use.

by Anonymous on 9. June 2009 - 12:48  (23405)

This is also good at finding if anyone is using your photos without your consent.

by Anonymous on 2. June 2009 - 16:03  (22902)

TinEye is amazing!

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