Monday, February 27, 2012

Reverse image search

Teachers are becoming more and more copyright aware and wanting to model ethical use of digital images in their classrooms. Do you have an image and you are unsure where it came from? Would you like to check if it is an image you are free to use? Or perhaps you would like check how one of your images is being used across the internet? TinEye is reverse image search engine that is free for non-commercial use. Simply upload an image, or type the URL of an image and hit Search to see where it exists on the internet. Your image may not be found, but TinEye is constantly trawling the web and updating the image database all the time so try again at a later date.
The same people - Idée Labs have a range of other visual search engines. We love them all! You can search images that contain a set of defined colours, search for images that are similar to one you identify or search for images by tags. The results are displayed in a beautiful mosaic of colour. Try Idée Labs now, but be warned - you may be completely absorbed in image searching for some time!

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