<story><title>Reverse image search engine</title><url>http://tineye.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ruby_roo</author><text>Not bad, but I think it would be more useful if I could submit an image and have the engine give me all the facts it could dig up about it, based on its context in other pages, geo tags and camera type (if available), etc.&lt;p&gt;I think we&apos;re going to see some very interesting developments along these lines very soon. Scary stuff too. Imagine submitting a picture of yourself and finding out what the internet knows about you based on your physical appearance. Better keep those Facebook profiles private, folks! More than that, you&apos;ll have to convince your friends to keep their profiles private if they have pics of you as well!&lt;p&gt;&amp;#60;tangent&amp;#62; This is what is rather frightening about the next web; even if you want to remain anonymous, you&apos;re going to have to do battle with all the other folks who are more than happy to post and tag pictures of you for the world to see (with good -natured intentions, I might add). Remember that embarrassing moment at that party where you had a little too much to drink? Oh, you were too drunk to recall? Well, it&apos;s on somebody&apos;s public Facebook profile now. With your name on it. And if I am your employer, what&apos;s to stop me from taking your badge photo and plugging it into a service to pull down other pictures of you from the cloud? :O &amp;#60;/tangent&amp;#62;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, back to the matter at hand! I do see your service as being particularly valuable to IP holders who want to know who is displaying their copyrighted images or logos without authorization. If your site were comprehensive enough, you could probably go freemium and become a paid tattle-tale. Take that a step further and &quot;For a nominal fee, you can click here to have our partners at LegalZoom.com send a takedown notice.&quot;&lt;p&gt;:)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wave</author><text>You can use &lt;a href=&quot;http://imageheader.com/alpha&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imageheader.com/alpha&lt;/a&gt; , which reads image file and displays all information about the image including geolocation tags. This is alpha version&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://imageheader.com/alpha/index.php?url=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2928512648_74e1eef80a_o.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://imageheader.com/alpha/index.php?url=http://farm4.stat...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Reverse image search engine</title><url>http://tineye.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ruby_roo</author><text>Not bad, but I think it would be more useful if I could submit an image and have the engine give me all the facts it could dig up about it, based on its context in other pages, geo tags and camera type (if available), etc.&lt;p&gt;I think we&apos;re going to see some very interesting developments along these lines very soon. Scary stuff too. Imagine submitting a picture of yourself and finding out what the internet knows about you based on your physical appearance. Better keep those Facebook profiles private, folks! More than that, you&apos;ll have to convince your friends to keep their profiles private if they have pics of you as well!&lt;p&gt;&amp;#60;tangent&amp;#62; This is what is rather frightening about the next web; even if you want to remain anonymous, you&apos;re going to have to do battle with all the other folks who are more than happy to post and tag pictures of you for the world to see (with good -natured intentions, I might add). Remember that embarrassing moment at that party where you had a little too much to drink? Oh, you were too drunk to recall? Well, it&apos;s on somebody&apos;s public Facebook profile now. With your name on it. And if I am your employer, what&apos;s to stop me from taking your badge photo and plugging it into a service to pull down other pictures of you from the cloud? :O &amp;#60;/tangent&amp;#62;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, back to the matter at hand! I do see your service as being particularly valuable to IP holders who want to know who is displaying their copyrighted images or logos without authorization. If your site were comprehensive enough, you could probably go freemium and become a paid tattle-tale. Take that a step further and &quot;For a nominal fee, you can click here to have our partners at LegalZoom.com send a takedown notice.&quot;&lt;p&gt;:)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FlorinAndrei</author><text>Privacy is dead, move on.</text></comment>