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Fascinating Technology
Robert Scoble blogged about this new service which is in beta this AM and I thought I would share with the few of you who are not among the 28,933 people who follow him on twitter or on friendfeed.
TinyEye is an image search engine.
Which is to say you upload a photo to it or point to an image URL and it will show you all the matches in its database (still small but growing).
They do this by creating a unique finger print for each image and then comparing those finger prints. If I heard correctly they plan to be able to do the same for video clips as well in the future.
Below are two sample searches off their website:
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