Even if Microstock has become the ultimate opportunity
to buy high quality images for just a few bucks, still people steal and use
images on the web and print they didn't pay for. TinEye now helps you to find
your stolen images.
The
idea behind TinEye is not new, but ever since a service like this has
been really expensive to private users. TinEye creates a "fingerprint" of an
image and searches the currently about 5 million images in their database in
order to find an image that matches your source.
TinEye
even goes a step further by being able to find partial matches, so if an image
of yours is slighty edited, but still recognizable, TinEye will find it. The
company even offers a Firefox-plugin for an easier and faster image search
right in your browser.
Read
more about the service and watch a video explaining the technology after the
click.
TinEye
is a service provided by Idée Inc., which has partners like digg.com or Adobe
who use their image-recognition technology.
Verdict
The
service is currently creating a lot of attention, so my guess is that it'll be
bought by some bigger company soon. It would be great for us Microstock users
to have a built in theft-stopper without doing anything on our own, TinEye
could just be the technology for that. I'll be reviewing this interesting new
service immediately after I receive my account!
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