Tin Eye – Are Your Photos Still Your Photos?
Post by Robert Campbell on Feb 08, 2009
Bloggers who ‘borrow’ other people’s photos must know that internet technology will eventually catch them. Tin Eye is a website, still in beta, that’s designed to let both amateur and professional photographers track their published images. But will Tin Eye help police photo theft on the wild wild web? Someday, perhaps, but not yet. Although the program searches 1.2 billion images in just a few seconds, it doesn’t find much. When I experimented on Feb 5th 2009, I was disappointed. Suffice to say none of my pictures had been replicated by anyone, and I couldn’t even find matches to the ones I’d stolen. Consequently I’m left believing that one point two billion pictures is a very small fraction of the total amount of images available online. The Tin Eye blog is just what you’d expect; the author chronicles his company’s achievements and documents their growth. He explains new widgets and… Read more »