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Ars Technica Logo “TinEye is incredibly useful” Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
PopPhoto.com Logo “A major player in the image-search arena.” Jack Howard, Popular Photography
TechCrunch Logo “I've seen my fair share of image search demos, and they usually promise far more than they deliver... I finally saw one that deserves the name...” Eric Schonfeld, TechCrunch
Boing Boing Logo “Idée is doing facinating stuff...” Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing

In the News

2010

Google chooses TinEye as top Chrome extension (Google Blog) [July 15]
TinEye poised for #1 startup in Toronto (Techvibes) [July 13]
TinEye part of the top ten startups in Canada (Techvibes) [July 13]
Blackberry, IMAX, TinEye. Canada's contributions to tech (TECHi) [July 1]
Hunt down anonymous email addresses using TinEye (Digital Inspiration) [June 24]
TinEye one of makeuseof.com's 5 most advanced search engines [June 22]
Plagiarism Today: 11 Free Copyright Tools for Photographers and Artists [June 17]

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TinEye featured on CNN News with Tech Guru Mario Armstrong [May 16]
Idée co-produces HackTO: Toronto's technology community first API hacking event [May 15]
Mozilla features our TinEye Firefox Add-on in Rock Your Firefox [May 14]
PC Pro: Spotting the Photoshop Fakes [May 13]
The Top Ten Internet Search Engines [May 11]
TinEye scours the Internet to discover if that image is being used elsewhere [May 11]
Facebook, privacy advocates square off over what's public and what's protected [May 1]
NetworkWorld: Keeping an eye on your image [April 27]
Eight great sites for photography lovers [April 19]
Idée launches the TinEye Chrome Plugin which allows single click image searching when using the Chrome browser. [February 12]
Los Angeles Times: TinEye enables users to track photos [February 5]
For images, Tineye is probably the best source for image plagiarism detection. Jonathan Bailey as interviewed by Ian Greenleigh [January 29]

2009

Maximum PC: TinEye Reverse Image Search, Firefox Add-on of the Week [December 29]
The TinEye API has arrived! [November 18]
PCWorld: Finding your photos online. [November 9]
TinEye is Kim Komando's website of the day [October 19]
TinEye Firefox Add-on a top rated and downloaded Add-on [October 6]
Lifehacker: TinEye Adds Reverse Image Lookup to Firefox [October 2, 2009]
TinEye partners with Photoshelter, making it easy to find the original author of a photograph. [September 24]
TinEye on CNN: CNN’s Kyra Phillips talks about protecting your family photos online [August 3]
City digitally adds black guy to Fun Guide cover to make it more ‘inclusive’ [June 10]
TinEye in The UK Telegraph debunking the British National Party campaign images. [May 15]
TinEye: a web service every photographer should know about [May 8]
Kim Komando, America's Digital Goddess, nominates TinEye as a Cool Site of the Day [March 24]
Sleuthing 101 Scientific American [March 15]

2008

Stunning Multicolr search BoingBoing [October 26]
BBC airs segment about Idée Labs Video [October 10]
TinEye to Announce Index of Over 1 Billion Images, Email Alerts, iPhone App by Chris Snyder [September 30]
Idée Multicolr Search Now Includes 10 Million CC-Licensed Flickr Images [September 4]
Image search firms target police, marketing users by itWorldCanada [August 27]
InFocus: Image Search by Digital Photo Pro Magazine [August 27]
TinEye: An Image is Your Search Query by Techvibes [August 20]
Tineye: Protecting Images, Preventing Orphans by Plagiarism Today [August 19]
TinEye image search helps ferret out copyright ripoffs by Ars Technica [August 19]
TinEye Image Search Finds Copyright Infringers by InformationWeek [August 19]
Cool Links - TinEye, The Image Search Engine by CTV [August 19]
TinEye lets you search with images by Geek.com [August 19]
"An image search engine that promises to revolutionize the market." by Softpedia [August 19]
TinEye: Tracking your images, pixel-by-pixel by Inquisitr [August 18]
Visual search engine is photographer's best friend by PC Pro [August 18]
Idée signs key editorial customers for PixID Image Monitoring Service by Brent Phelps, About The Image [July 29]
Image search engine could help photographers by British Journal of Photography [July 28]
Idée Labs: Multicolor Image Search by evad, COLOURlovers.com [July 28]
Encontre fotografias por cores ou temas by Daniela Arrais, Folha de S. Paulo [July 23]
Image Search is Becoming Better (English translation) Hope Balovsyak, Telnews.ru [July 28]
TinEye, invitations disponibles by Cleofide, net-actuality.org [July 27]
Find dine billeder på nettet by Søren Steffen [July 21]
TinEye Image Search Engine by sayest.blogspot.com [July 23]
"Idée Inc have come up with a winner with TinEye." by Stuart, RobertPhotoBlog [July 23]
Idée Inc. : un Google de l'image en devenir ? by Romain, emob.fr [July 22]
TinEye - Look for photos with pictures (in Arabic) on arablibrarians.blogspot.com [July 10]
Cloud computing a down-to-earth solution by Tom Keenan - Business Edge [June 27]
TinEye Oh My! by John Harrington, Photo Business News [July 19]
"A new cool search engine for images." by Breck [July 19]
TinEye, pour trouver des photos identiques sur le net by Korben [July 12]
Multicolr Search : la recherche par couleur on linfographik.com [July 15]
TinEye Follow-Up by John Goldsmith [July 17]
Bildersuche nach “Fingerprint” (Image search by fingerprint) by Johannes [July 1]
Idée: Full of Ideas by Martin Joergensen, Nikonian [July 13]
“Tineye, a revolutionary new image search application.” by Dean Bradshaw [July 16]
TinEye Image Search Engine by Xof, digitalfreak.net [July 15]
TinEye.com - a very cool tool! by Arthur Gebuys [July 15]
TinEye Cool Searches by Yogendra [July 11]
A New Image Search Service - TinEye by Vivek, tnerd.com [July 11]
Image Recognition Software becomes available from Idée In News: The Moving Pictures Collective [July 10]
Cool tool of the day: TinEye by Jeff Woelker [July 9]
Multicolr Search Lab: color search for Flickr by Jay Hathaway, downloadsquad [July 10]
Multicolr Search Lab Sorts Flickr Pictures by Color by Kevin, Lifehack [July 10]
An Eye on TinEye by Rob, GeekMedia [July 9]
Image searching that works by TinEye by Daniel, gHacks.net [July 9]
Paul Bloore demos TinEye for Robert Scoble - Qik.com Video [July 9]
Search Flickr Images by Color With the Multicolr Search Lab by Corvida, ReadWriteWeb [July 9]
A gem of a beta product called TinEye by Idée. by Phil, scribkin.com [July 9]
TinEye Found My Print by Candace Holly, *Spark* [July 9]
"TinEye - Searching For Images With An Image" by Suresh Chandren, makeuseof.com [July 8]
"TinEye: Image Search Engine and Art Theft Detector" - glossyart.com blog [July 8]
"We’ve got an Eye for TinEye" by Imran Hussain, StartupMeme.com [July 7]
"TinEye Finds Your Photographs On The Web" - macimager.com [July 7]
"Beauty is in ‘TinEye’ of the Beholder" - StartupMeme.com [July 5]
Image search service TinEye index expanded by 100 million images (in German) by Robert Kneschke [July 5]
Ten Web Startups to Watch by David Crow, StartupNorth [July 3]
Lost and Found by Photo District News [July 2]
"You'll be amazed at how cool this technology is" by Many Ayromlou, nerdlogger.com [June 26]
LILI IT Interest Group demos TinEye as a tool for use in library instruction [June 26]
Online Tools to Stay Competitive in the Digital Age by Mike Fox, Black Star Rising [June 26]
TinEye for the Cartoon Guy by Mark Rall [June 27]
News Archive

Press Releases

European Press Agency, Matrix Photos, Capital Pictures and Feature Flash select PixID to track their editorial photographs [July 23, 2008]
Featureflash Photography agency selects Idée Inc.'s PixID Image Monitoring Service [May 27, 2008]
Idée inc. launches TinEye, the world’s first image identification based web search engine [May 6, 2008]
Idée's Image Identification Technology Enhances Social–Content Sites [December 19, 2007]
Press Releases Archive