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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Sophia on August 04, 2008, 06:02

Title: Tin eye
Post by: Sophia on August 04, 2008, 06:02

I wanted to ask a question about Tin eye. I've been searching Tin Eye every so often to see if I can find some of my images in use. Every time and with every image I search it returns 0 results. Some of the images have been sold between 30 and 100 times and I can find them easily searching on google or yahoo using my name. So why doesn't Tin Eye return any results? Am I doing something wrong or is it just not very good yet. I am using the Firefox plugin where you need to right click an image to start a search.

Title: Re: Tin eye
Post by: Microbius on August 04, 2008, 06:12

I think the number of sites they index is still relatively small, hopefully things will improve over time.

Title: Re: Tin eye
Post by: louoates on August 04, 2008, 08:20

Tin Eye searches only web resident images. Lots of uses are other than web. Brochures, print ads, etc. Even with the millions of web sites indexed by Tin Eye they're just getting started. Lots of my top producers with 100s of downloads don't show up there. I can't see much useful stuff there by most of us contributors.