Whenever you get a call from a number you don’t recognize, you can do a reverse lookup to find out a little more about who the caller is. So from that line of thinking, TinEye allows you to do a reverse lookup on an image file.
TinEye 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. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.
After playing around with this a bit, I found the results to be pretty good. For example, I went to Google Images and searched “computer” and pulled off the first graphic I found and then searched this image file on TinEye and it came up with lots of results with all the places it is being used.
I can see this being a great resource for web developers who want to make sure they are using (somewhat) unique graphic files. TinEye is still in beta, but this can be a very valuable tool.
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