I heard about the TinEye beta from an RSS feed that talked about how it could help find images that had used elsewhere. So I thought it'd be a good idea to check it out as I've had quite a few of my images used in the past without permission. What makes this different to other search engines is that you upload or provide a link to an image and instead of working on any metadata it compares the images pixel by pixel so that even with modifications to the image any duplicates can still be found.
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web--even if it has been modified.
So I headed along to their site, and watched the video. It seems a very interesting concept and I can see it becoming an invaluable web master tool for those that offer graphics or photographs on their site.
So, after the quick registration process for the beta I logged in, installed the plugin for Firefox and tried it on a few of my images that I know have been used in the past. Unfortunately it didn't work for any of mine, but they did say in the video that they've only indexed a very very small percentage of images so far so it may work for me eventually.
I'd be interested in knowing if it's worked for anyone else? It could just be I was unlucky.
Forget the search, that lady's hot! Wonder what pictures of her are on the net?