Introduction to similar image search: tineye

Similar image search engine: http://www.tineye.com/

 

The search engine of this website is a reverse search engine. Unlike the general engine, the search engine does not use individual words as keywords, search for the usage of the image on the Internet using the image as the key information.

This website requires users to upload an image or provide a URL for the image. Click search to search for all images matching the image through the Internet.

 

It can be used to search:

Where the image comes from, how it is used, whether there is a modified version, or whether there is a version with a higher resolution.

Tineye is the first search engine on the internet that uses image identity information instead of keywords, metadata, or watermarks.

Cool searches contains some tineye search examples. After reading the figure below, you will find it interesting.

Note: Metadata (meta date) refers to the data or information used to describe the data. Each digital photo has an EXIF message. It is a metadata used to describe digital images. According to the EXIF standard, the metadata includes: Image Description (image description, source. indicates the tool for generating images), artist (author), make (producer), model (model ),.... And so on.

 

If you provide a picture that is not yours, you can use this website to find the source of the picture. If you want to know whether your painting is abused, you can also use it.

 

Tineye:

Http://www.tineye.com/faq