The search engine will look up other usage of the image in the internet, including modified images based upon that image, and report the date and time at which they were posted. Īs of September 2020, TinEye's search results claim to have over 41.9 billion images indexed for comparison.Ī user uploads an image to the search engine (the upload size is limited to 20 MB) or provides a URL for an image or for a page containing the image.
However, this is a relatively small proportion of the total number of images available on the World Wide Web. In June 2014, TinEye claimed to have indexed more than five billion images for comparisons. The service was created with copyright owners and brand marketers as the intended user base, to look up unauthorized use and track where the brands are showing up respectively. While computer vision and image identification research projects began as early as the 1980s, the company claims that TinEye is the first web-based image search engine to use image identification technology.
Idée launched the service on and went into open beta in August that year. was founded by Leila Boujnane and Paul Bloore in 1999.
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