TinEye is a reverse image search engine which allows users to search using images instead of keywords, metadata or watermarks.

After you submit an image, TinEye creates a "unique and compact digital signature or fingerprint" of the image and matches it with other indexed images. This procedure is able to match even heavily edited versions of the submitted image, but will not usually return similar images in the results.

TinEye is capable of searching for images in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format. As of 2009, other formats that contain images online, such as Adobe Flash, are not searchable.



Results generated from TinEye include: the total number of matches in their database that the submitted image has generated, a preview image and URL to each match, as well as a function called Compare Images. Compare Images will bring up a window where the user can switch back and forth between the original image and the search result.TinEye can sort results by best match, worst match, biggest image, or smallest image.

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