TinEye purports to be a website that will do a reverse-image lookup. Feed it an image or the URL of an image, and it claims it will find the places where that image has been used.
I learned about it from this article.
Given the sharing that happened yesterday — scroll down in my post here — I decided to see if TinEye would uncover that use and perhaps others.
Well, no:
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Well, perhaps it didn’t like the URL I gave it. But that’s just no excuse. Because I’ve used that image in at least three posts. And it found none of them!
Then I decided to try a famous image. Because I Am Mean!
I used that famous space shuttle photo that’s been floating around and is the subject of the article I linked to at the beginning of this post. I mean, come on, it should be able to find something as widely used as that, right?
Um, no:
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So, if I had to answer the question, Does TinEye work at all? My own reply would be: No.
Weird. I like TinEye. It doesn’t always find everything, but I’ve found very few cases like those you describe. I use it fairly often, and usually it works pretty well.
I’ve tracked down the origins of several images with it. I would never have known where they came from otherwise.
Doesn’t work. Scam. Tried it also.
I confirm, it doesn’t work
I can’t say I used it honestly. If it finds images on the net then at most I can say I TRIED to use it a dozen times because it never found anything. Ir’s utterly worthless.
Tried it a lot , that thing doesn´t find any of my pictures (laying out on different sites) . Not even several months after publishing.
Hey @PeterJones, just curious: how is it a scam if it’s FREE?
And by the way, no it doesn’t work (that’s why I googled “TinEye doesn’t work” and ended up here). I was trying to find out who’s the guy in this caricature and no luck:
https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/173362_1292226782_62107646_n.jpg
If you happen to know who he is, let me know!
I can confirm Tineye is a load of crap and no, it doesn`t work.
Have attempted to use Tineye to find images over several years, but mostly with no success, even have it as an add on with firefox. It can manage to find an image, but this is few and very far between.
I have no idea what the point of it is? As the whole thing is a waste of time.
Tineye used to work great back in the day…maybe around 2007-2008 if I remember correctly. I haven’t been able to get it to return anything for several years, though. Google has a nice reverse image search tool now, but it’s just not the same.
does not work have several of my images stolen now i have to go to google to find them