On with the interesting aspects

You are also able to add a result by submitting the URL. If the page is already indexed by Google, it will immediately display the title and description of your URL. I experimented a little and it seems that the cache used here is different from the usual search index (some pages cannot be found by Google when searching for their exact URL, but they are already cached when adding results to SearchWiki).

Another useful feature is the ability to see what others have added on the search you have just performed.

Conclusion

They claim that your suggestions on SearchWiki will only affect your own searches. Why shouldn’t they expand this to add a certain human side of their ranking algorithm? For example having 1,000 users delete a certain result from their search means that many others might find it useless as well.

Tineye is an image search engine that uses an image as input for generating results.

Long story short, most SE (search engines) use keywords supplied by people for generating image results. The downside is that by using this technique, SE try to guess the content of an image by it’s file name, surrounding keywords, etc.

TinEye tries a different approach. It uses an image provided by you to search for similar images. Here are two advantages I can think of:

• You have a picture, but need a higher resolution. A regular SE won’t help you much.
• There is a watermark on your image. It is possible to find the original image, unedited.

But the major drawback is… you need the actual image to begin your search!

At this moment, TinEye is still in beta. You need an account to perform any searches, but obtaining one requires a few days (invitations are not given immediately). Fortunately it seems I have 3 invitations to send. So if you need any, drop a comment.

In the future I’m hoping they provide an API for their search service. Yep, I need it for LOLhome :)