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[telophase]

I've just discovered TinEye, an image search engine. You upload a picture (or install a browser plugin that you can activate by right-clicking an image), and it searches its database for matches.

It's still in beta and has only a small database - a few million pics - but some experimentation with it has managed to uncover some image dump forums where some of my fanart, mostly the older stuff, has been uploaded. It confirms that this is my most popular picture EVAR, with three pages of results. I also proved to my satisfaction that I managed to nail the Naruto chapter title page style when I did this picture back in the day, because it returned four hits - all of them official Naruto title pages! I should run some of the doujinshi scans through it and see how far they've traveled.

It also reminds me that when I upload a pic, I need to have my DA address VERY CLEAR in it.

Anyway, some time from now, when its database is much larger, it should make the jobs of those of us who occasionally put on our Copyright Avenger masks much easier. *wanders off to DA to try it out*

Comments

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nifty. I'm always interested in reference tools and tech designed to find images. It's so much more difficult than finding and matching text.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I showed it to my coworker, who speculated that his father-in-law, who's always posting old photos of his family to his genealogy website, could use it to search for other people who posted the same pic. Which sounds like a cool use for it.

[croaky.livejournal.com]

Oh TinEye is much fun indeed. x3

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup, this could work out quite well. XD

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Cool! We've been covering image searching in my insane database class; really cool stuff. Complicated, but cool. (Wish we got to spend more time on the images....)

[matildarose.livejournal.com]

Tineye is my tool of choice for busting art thieves on DA. It makes it so insanely easy. ;__;