TinEye’s reverse image search
I’m very proud that a photo that I snapped with my cellphone on a London sidewalk (and that I posted in this blog) is the fourth hit you get when you do a Google image search for “comb over”.
Now TinEye lets me feed in the photo’s URL and see the other places where it’s been used. You can even give upload the photo itself. TinEye spiders the Web, creating a hash for the images it finds, and then compares the search “term” to the hash. Of course this can be used to track down Violators, but it could also be useful to get more information about an image. The site’s “cool searches” page has some examples of searches that are, well, somewhat cool and that give a sense of the search engine’s tolerance for variations. (Thanks to Michael O’Conner Clarke for the link.)
When I see a picture (or person) with something in their dress or grooming like that, I wonder what they think about it and what they think WE think about it, and them. And then I wonder what I am doing or wearing or combing that gets others thinking like that. But that hair-really!! It ought to be number one on the search results.
Redefines the often used-by female gender -expression having a “bad hair day.” All I need is a little rain or humidity to live that experience. So glad David that it’s not the back of your head! And I would know that because yes, I am related (David’s sister and for that matter, also Andy’s sister) but if I was related to the person in the photo, I’d probably never own up to it. How shallow can I be:) this guy trumps The Donald.
Nothing like mocking the less fortunate to make us feel better about ourselves
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