TinEye : First Image Search Engine Of World

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TinEye is a reverse image search engine developed and offered by Idée, Inc., a company based in Toronto, Canada. Claiming to be "the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks," TinEye allows users to search not using keywords but with images. Upon submitting an image, TinEye creates a "unique and compact digital signature or fingerprint" of the image and matches it with other indexed images.

                          Idée, Inc. was founded by Leila Boujnane and Paul Bloore in 1999. Idée launched the service on May 6, 2008 and went into open beta in August that year. While computer vision and image identification research projects began as early as the 1980s.