A few suggestions

[TSPhoenix]

1) A way to set some kind of tolerance threshold for "similarness". A lot of the time I want an image exactly the same as what I'm searching for, except a different size, in colour, etc. When I search for the biggest image I often get a lot of images with borders, additional whitespace, etc... Any chance of adding more options to filter results?

2) When searching for largest image, if there are multiple results with the same dimensions, they aren't ordered by file size. So you can have two 1024x768 results and the 100KB one will appear before the 300KB one. Generally when searching for the "Biggest" image you want the highest quality one.

Following on from this, maybe tweak the algorithm to put a 1024x768 400KB image ahead of a 1066x800 80KB image.

3) When searching for images, make "Your Image" an actual link back to the original image. Its a real pain when using TinEye to have to keep the tab with the original image open just because you might not get the results you want.

4) An option for the plugin to let it open searches in the same tab. Most of the time I want searches in a new tab, but sometimes it'd be really handy to disable that behaviour. In tandem with (3) it could streamline finding better quality copies of images.

5) Maybe writing in the FAQ about some good uses for TinEye and tips for getting the results you want. Apart from the obvious "find better quality/original versions of images" the idea in the eBay thread was a really good one. I personally used TinEye a lot in an art project I did recently. I say this because TinEye isn't really a normal search engine so how to use it effectively isn't as obvious as say with a text-based search engine.

6) Let the plugin search file:/// URLs. Or is this impossible due to JavaScript security?

[Pasha_49]

Excuse, for my English.
Add support UTF-8 at line URL.
At loading of a file with the name in utf-8 all is good, but at url address instructions there is an error

[Melina]

Hi TSPhoenix and Pasha_49. Thanks for the excellent suggestions. TSPhoenix there are a couple of suggestions here that we are particularly interested in rolling out. We'll post updates here once we are getting ready for our next release.

Thanks again for your wonderful feedback.

[Stoic]

I disagree on having the largest size image being a better quality, you can have a really crappy quality looking picture but huge resolution thus making the size much larger compared to it's smaller file size counterpart which has better "quality". So searching for images by file size isn't very practical.

[TSPhoenix]

Well yeah image files can be bloated, but generally speaking the larger one should look better.

Also I'd love to see some kind of watermark detection in Tineye.

[Stoic]

Watermark detection would be nice , but which type are you referring to? there's the one that's visible and there's the one where it's hidden as a way to identify the image as your own without letting the viewers know?

[TSPhoenix]

The visible type. Being able to filter out watermarked images (or ones with oversize watermarks) from results would be nice as often a lot of those results are useless.

While I'm here, does anyone know of any software that can use multiple similar images create a higher quality version of that image? I understand this is a very complex operation, but computers do all kinds of amazing things so I wouldn't be surprised if someone's already done it.

[Christine]

At least with watermarked images, if you wish to use the image for anything you have a chance of finding the copyright holder and asking permission for its use or getting a licence, when there is no copyright visible this will be much more difficult to do.

[TSPhoenix]

I'm talking more about images where people steal them and add their own watermarks. But I digress.

[Melina]

Hi TSPhoenix,

3) When searching for images, make "Your Image" an actual link back to the original image. Its a real pain when using TinEye to have to keep the tab with the original image open just because you might not get the results you want.

Just letting you know that we have taken care of this item in the latest release of TinEye.

Cheers!