Firefox Add-on of the Week: TinEye Reverse Image Search
Firefox Add-on of the Week: TinEye Reverse Image Search
Posted 12/29/2009 at 1:00pm
| by David Murphy
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Awesome! That image rocks! Where did it come from? Can I get it a size bigger and make it my desktop wallpaper?
Such are the common questions you might ask yourself should you stumble across an awesome picture on the Internet And until now, there's been no clear way to search for an identical version of an image across the Web No, a Google search for the image's characteristics doesn't count--good luck trying to find the one shot of a red balloon you're looking for in a sea of thousands.
The Mozilla Firefox add-on TinEye Reverse Image Search uses a novel method for finding copies of said image across the Internet Whenever you submit an image to be searched, the accompanying site--tineye.com--assigns a digital fingerprint to the picture. It then looks for similar fingerprints across its archive of collected images, allowing the site (or your add-on) to pull up partial or exact matches for the image you've searched for In that sense, you're not just looking for images that are similar to your picture in terms of coloration or subject You're looking for exact copies, crops, or scaled versions of the shot.
How well does TinEye Reverse Image Search actually work in practice? As expected, you can't just click on any ol' image on the Internet and expect it to produce comparable results Trying to search for alternate versions of random Web graphics on, say, CNN.com or maximumpc.com isn't always going to produce much to look at. Remember, you're searching for duplicate images. Screenshots will certainly pull up results, as will pictures that would otherwise be the kind that are copied around the Web--like certain Flickr photographs, for example And now that I've mentioned that, you should probably know that TinEye Reverse Image Search is an excellent way to find out who's using your images around the 'net as well...
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January 11, 2011 at 12:29pm
This is the first time I've come across the "TinEye Reverse Image Search." So if I want to find an image of waterproof mp3 players this add on will give all the results that comes from all the website that are showing this particular image?
samson77
December 16, 2010 at 10:35pm
The radically different in regards to the look of their buttons and such. Differences exist, but nothing so groundbreaking as to warrant a customized skin for your Firefox browser.Thanks for sharing the info.
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October 21, 2010 at 12:52am
There's been no clear way to search for an identical version of an image across the Web.
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July 03, 2010 at 5:18am
It is great! Firefox is getting better and better! Here is the video http://www.videorolls.com/watch/5-Best-Firefox-Add-ons-of-All-Time of 5 best Firefox Add-ons.
Jacob_13
May 07, 2010 at 2:21am
Started to use this add-on about week ago. But, actually, use this service almost year) It`s TinEye site. NIce to know that now you don`t need to go to that exact site to find what do you want. So i deleted the TinEye from Favourites) and resume to use Firefox TinEye Add-On) Thanks guys!
Cy-Kill
December 29, 2009 at 4:09pm
I've been using TinEye for a while, the web site that is, and when they released a plugin for IE I installed that, just haven't gotten around to installing the Firefox extension for TinEye yet; it'a great web app, however, sometime it doesn't find a match, which maybe only happens around 5-10% of the time.
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December 29, 2009 at 12:43pm
to bad it doesnt work on copy...i recently found a guy on fanfiction.net who had copied, word for word, 5 stories from me and 4 fellow DeviantArt writers and posted them as his own.
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