Say hi to your Toronto colleagues, I really want them to succeed , but I do have to point out the differences ( rather than trash talking…)

But Seriously, have a real try at picitp.com, it is a very useful tool for people who seek images and is gaining terrific momentum ( says alexa et al..)

killerstartups is saying:
“Picitup is certainly fun and easy to use. It’s better than what Google currently offers and visually more interesting.”

http://www.kill...Search-Picks-Up)

From a recent query on the site “searched over 487 million images in 0.838 seconds”

Amber Mac gives a pretty good rundown/demo of the tool on her blog: http://ambermac...e-does-for-text

Sorry everyone didn’t line up to sing your site’s praises but dude, it’s not that original… hope you don’t have your own money in this dog…

I quote “a 3 million image collection”

Best of luck Anyway….

That “tiny image DB demo” has half a billion photos indexed (and growing) in it and searches for other images based on the image you provide it.

It’s a true image search engine – Picitup is just Google Images rehashed.

Here’s a good example of the power of tineye: http://ricksega...o-be-authe.html

Try doing that with Picitup…

I estimate that over 99.9% of image searches are by people trying to get from keywords to an image, and not from an image to similar images. If I look at myself and everyone close that I know, it just doesn’t feel like the need is there.

Maybe it can be useful to some verticals. Or for things like automatically tagging (or even geotagging!) photos.

But of course, it’s all subject to their technology working better than it currently appears.

Anyway, good luck in their uphill battle in this crowded space.

http://www.mugr.com

Face matching is tough, I know that picture resolution has much to do with the matching accuracy, what resolution were those photos at?

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

Harry “not all Asians are small” Wang

I agree with #17, Idee’s TinEye stands head and shoulders above this site…

They need more smoke.

In general, we are the First to allow for web wide free visual search. We are in Beta but are making fast progress.

1. A nice example of the enignes results could be found in the following:
Before: http://tinyurl.com/5wzwnq
After: http://tinyurl.com/6rgrn5

It shows how much time can be saved, and how accurate our resuls can get.

2. Please note the running shoes sample mentioned had no second match in the original results and hence the similrity match should scratch out the closest matches it could find.

3. The Celebrity match part of the site is meant to be used when there’s a second image of the same person in the DB, which was not the case for Mr. Arrington… A nice example of that should be http://tinyurl.com/64bgpa

Alon