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Marian Murdoch
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March 01, 2010, 12:11:20 PM
Wow and Wow! I just installed this as a Firefox plugin and am impressed. All I have to do is right click one of my images in my gallery (or any other place I have it displayed) and it will tell me if that image is found anywhere else on the web. Thus far, most have come back with 0 results, but it did find a couple of my images that I had used as an avatar on other sites, so I know it works! Fantastic, and it's free!
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Ginnypenny
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Reply #1 - March 01, 2010, 01:00:42 PM
how does it work? Is it looking for the same file name? or what?
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Susie
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Marian Murdoch
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Reply #2 - March 01, 2010, 03:09:29 PM
http://www.tineye.com/

"TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. When you submit an image to be searched, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it, then compares this fingerprint to every other image in our index to retrieve matches. TinEye can even find a partial fingerprint match. TinEye does not typically find similar images (i.e. a different image with the same subject matter); it finds exact matches including those that have been cropped, edited or resized."

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Lauren Silcock
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Reply #3 - March 01, 2010, 03:38:06 PM
That's awesome! I'm definitely intrigued! Thanks! :-)
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Ryan
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Reply #4 - March 01, 2010, 05:48:46 PM
Well, I was going to ask a question but it looks like you beat me to it. I was wondering how well it worked with images that have been cropped or resized.

Sounds like a pretty cool tool.
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Benji
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Reply #5 - March 02, 2010, 10:07:48 AM
Quote from: Ryan Nutt on March 01, 2010, 05:48:46 PM
Well, I was going to ask a question but it looks like you beat me to it. I was wondering how well it worked with images that have been cropped or resized.

Sounds like a pretty cool tool.

TinEye caught a frequent poster on Photocamel.com.  This joker used to post some really beautiful images, but when asked about how he lit them or what Photoshop technique he used on them he was always vague, or said he was too busy to answer right now but would get back later.  Well someone for some reason got suspicious and ran one of his images through TinEye and it got a hit!  It found the identical image, but it was not on his website but another photographer's site!  So then we ran all of his previous images through it and most of them were stolen.  We banned him for life.

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Ginnypenny
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Reply #6 - March 02, 2010, 10:14:42 AM
wow, interesting
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Susie
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jkleb
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Reply #7 - March 02, 2010, 10:19:50 AM
I just checked a few of my photo's that I know are on different sites and didn't get any hits.
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Marian Murdoch
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Reply #8 - March 02, 2010, 10:45:13 AM
Benji, that's horrible! Someone would have to have such low self esteem to need gratification like that by using someone else's work. Sheesh.
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Lauren Silcock
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Reply #9 - March 02, 2010, 01:31:09 PM
Quote from: jkleb on March 02, 2010, 10:19:50 AM
I just checked a few of my photo's that I know are on different sites and didn't get any hits.

Yeah, I did the same thing. :-( Is it because they haven't indexed the entire Internet yet? I noticed on their home page that it had a place to submit a website.
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jkleb
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Reply #10 - March 02, 2010, 01:49:31 PM
I submitted mine. Figure I'll give them a few days and see if it works.
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-John
Sarcasm, frustrating the clueless since 3000 b.c.
"There is no Un-Suck filter" David duChemin

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