As the number of images drastically increase on the web each and every year, I doubt there really is any practical way to catch up. I also wonder one thing. Just how are they making a match? If they can't see content, what are they using? Surely its more than file name in that could be changed easily. If they are checking the ones and zeros, then they probably are looking at content though there may not have someone looking at content. They may not know its a face, (unless someone later decided to open the file) but it I guess would be looking at content.
Now searching for invisible watermarks should be much more effective, but digimark is still fairly expensive. I hope someone comes up with a similar service at a much cheaper price.
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Subject: Re: tineye.com
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, February 12, 2010 10:49 am
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thu, February 11, 2010 19:22, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I uploaded an image that I have on two different web sites and the answer
> I
> got back is
>
> Wondering why TinEye couldn't find your image?
> * Our search index is still very small—just a fraction of all the
> images on the web! But our index is always growing, so be sure to search
> for
> this image again later.
> * TinEye looks for the specific image you uploaded, not the content
> of the image. TinEye cannot identify people or objects in an image.
I periodically suggest places for them to scan. But yeah, they don't
cover that much yet, and it's been years now.
I do still find useful matches now and then, taking me back to the source
of something I've seen floating around.
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