TinEye Mobile : iPhone visual search for stuff

By Ian | October 1, 2008

as demonstrated during the recent The Amazon Web Services (AWS) StartUp event in Toronto by Idee’s CTO Paul Bloore, TinEye Mobile is soon to be showing up in the iPhone App store to melt your brains… or just take an image of product (a CD, DVD, book or game etc.) and then send you on to read reviews, sample music or do price comparisons.

Leila Boujnane, Idee’s CEO, has a video showing off TinEye Mobile and Mathew Ingram writes Idee does visual search, iPhone-style, as does Jevon MacDonald (StartUp North) in Idee’s new iphone app - TinEye Music.

Let the melting begin….

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By False Positives » Blog Archive » The Amazon Web Services (AWS) StartUp event in Toronto on October 1, 2008 at

[...] Paul talked about how they used EC2 to build a spider army to scan the web for new images, (and process the imaging matching secret sauce?) (currently at 900 million, soon to be 1Giga+! images indexed, he said in this best Doctor Evil voice.) Then he showed of a unreleased iphone app that takes a book or cd cover and uses a similar algorithm as TinEye to identify it and fetches reviews. Which caused my brain melted down …. (Update : see TinEye Mobile : iPhone visual search for stuff )> [...]