TinEye - Search based on Image

Ever wonder how Internet search engine evolved? Here come a new search engine that can search through the world wide web based on an image through sophisticated pattern recognition technique. I believe this type of search engine will start a new trend that can compliment our current search engine that is based on text such as Google and Yahoo!. Soon, there will be search engine that will be based other elements such as sound, file or combination of 2 or more elements that will further improve our searches. TinEye proofed to be a successful search engine although this site is still in beta phase but the results are quite matched. Check out this demonstration of their searches based on Mona Lisa poster here. The results are impressive where even the distorted, corrected or pixelated images of Mona Lisa poster are shown. You can click and compare the resemblance between the source image and the result images, it is stunning. Even though, some of you may say the results shown in link might be handpicked by human but the search engine must have refined the searches from millions of images to few hundred, only then the human factor might be involve to choose the best resemblance to showcase the effectiveness of TinEye. To those who is impressed and wanted to try out the search engine, you can send in your email to them so that they can let you try out when the search engine is ready. Good news is TinEye released 500 instant account for those who cant wait to search it. Head over to http://ping.fm/BEuOV if you are lucky you might be the 500 user ( I'm in ). Here is some printscreen for those cant get into the 500: You can see there is an upload an image button for you to upload the source image for searching. The image can be too small and must be less than 1mb of size. Or you can punch in the image URL for TinEye to search. Besides, there is a cool section which features Cool Searches where users submit some nice results that TinEye searched. If you are in, definately go check it out. (continue reading &aquo;)