Talk:TinEye

Inaccurate claim
Page is already tagged for self-published sources. I know it is referred to only as a claim, but I strongly suspect that Tineye's supposed index of more than 1 billion images is just hype. Not only do searches return surprisingly few results, but after the search (as at 15-1-10) a warning tells you that 'our index is still very small'. Perhaps we should skip this dubious claim?

Also, it is not clear whether the search engine recognises resized images.

Revised badly-written and incomplete para on how the search engine works. Centrepull (talk) 13:15, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Tineye indexed images claim - no independent corroboration available. However, current claim approaching 1.5bn images is more meaningful within context - flickr.com alone hosts 4bn images. Have added relevant statement with refs. Centrepull (talk) 21:16, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Reverse image search
Article of reverse image search should not redirect to this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.130.17.166 (talk) 05:44, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Done 18 April 2010 . -- Trevj (talk) 15:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

language
Tineye is only avaible in english as for as i know (I also searched on their site) Dmbekker (talk) 15:25, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was wrong Dmbekker (talk) 17:19, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Name
TinEye does not take it's name from the Mistborn series: http://blog.tineye.com/2010/09/22/tineye-whats-in-a-name/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.198.165.48 (talk) 17:31, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Tineye takes its name from Mistborn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wwwwwwwwwvw (talk • contribs) 01:55, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

The site's name may be a possible reference to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy, in which characters internally burn metals, which grant them special abilities. Characters who can only burn Tin, which enhances their senses, granting them improved vision, are called Tineyes. (needs a reference)--Nowa (talk) 00:37, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Funny - I thought it might be named after Robin "Tin eye" Stephens, the MI5 interrogator in the Second World War. He became famous for saying he never used torture - mainly as it got false confessions - but used to 'break' people verbally. Scary guy. He made double agents out of a few of his, um, 'interviewees', including Eddie Chapman (Agent Zigzag). I think Obama picked up the idea about the British never resorting to torture from stories about this man.--81.159.194.111 (talk) 11:46, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

The company TinEye was established well before the Mistborn series entered publication — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.99.83.241 (talk) 15:12, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Updated link: http://blog.ideeinc.com/2010/09/22/tineye-whats-in-a-name/ -- Auric    talk  13:08, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Omission?
The article doesn't mention TinEye's other potential use - i.e., finding bigger or sharper versions of pictures such as book covers or erotic photos. Possibly fewer users will employ it for this purpose than for tracking down copyright infringement, but it does mean the site could be used by copyright infringers as well. Lee M (talk) 03:20, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Recent changes
I just noticed today that since the last time I used TinEye, somewhen last week, it changed a lot, and now instead of saying «here’s the exact copies of this image online» or, more usually, «there are no exact copies of this image online», it tries to find “similar” images in the same nonsensical way Google.images worked till recently. (And of course, meanwhile the new Google.images is even more useless, after its own recent facelift.) Any chatter about that? Tuvalkin (talk) 20:34, 2 October 2023 (UTC)