TinEye

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TinEye

Type of site	Image Search Engine
Available in	multilingual
Owner	Idée, Inc.
URL	tineye.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	May 6, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-05-06)
Current status	Active

TinEye is a reverse image search engine developed and offered by Idée, Inc., a company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.^{[1][non-primary source needed]} TinEye allows users to search not using keywords but with images. Upon submitting an image, TinEye creates a "unique and compact digital signature or fingerprint" of the image and matches it with other indexed images.^[1] This procedure is able to match even heavily edited versions of the submitted image, but will not usually return similar images in the results.^[1]

It has been recommended for fact-checking images by various fact-checkers.