TinEye – Best Reverse Image Search Engine

Ever wanted to refine your image searching on search engines by uploading your own image to find similar matches? Popular search engines, search images only by their name or meta tags. But how about if you give your image to a search engine and let it find the the similar matching images over internet regardless of the image’s name or its meta tags. These types of Search engines are known as “Reverse Image Search Engines” and I like TinEye the best among all.

TinEye is one of the first and and best reverse image search engines. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. 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 their index to retrieve matches. It 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.

Visit : TinEye.com

You can have TinEye’s add-on for your firefox too. If you see any image and want to search its similar matches in TinEye, just right click that image and select “Search Image on TinEye”.

Install TinEye add-on for Firefox.