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May 14, 2009
Tin Eye image search
I was interested to see Tin Eye image search used in a blog post on BNP publicity. This search is a
reverse image search engine. 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.
As well as being useful for checking the source of pictures, this could also be invaluable for those of us interested in how particular images spread across the Internet - for example, one can get a sense of how a particular image of the torture of an Iraqi prisoner has been disseminated.
I have been pleasantly surprised in how well this works. It's still far from perfect - for example, as Tin Hat acknowledges, there is a lot of content on the Internet that they don't cover - but does look like a really useful tool.
Posted by jon_mendel at May 14, 2009 01:41 PM
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