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ClickFanatic
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| mcwkm wrote: | | ClickFanatic wrote: | | pharmer4 wrote: | | doesn't all google services start out made by someone else, and google gobbles them up? (or googles them up). |
That's just what rich companies do. If buying a service from someone else is cheaper than developing it yourself, then just buy it when possible. |
And then there was MS-DOS |
I am afraid Google is taking over habits from its older brother, yes. 
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LP-SolidRaven
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| ClickFanatic wrote: | | pharmer4 wrote: | | doesn't all google services start out made by someone else, and google gobbles them up? (or googles them up). |
That's just what rich companies do. If buying a service from someone else is cheaper than developing it yourself, then just buy it when possible. |
Chances are google will make it themselves though. They got some pretty smart people around.
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spock
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| ClickFanatic wrote: | | pharmer4 wrote: | | doesn't all google services start out made by someone else, and google gobbles them up? (or googles them up). |
That's just what rich companies do. If buying a service from someone else is cheaper than developing it yourself, then just buy it when possible. |
I believe it's almost always cheaper to develop it yourself than to buy it. Howver, developing it yourself needs a great idea, lot's of research and time. I think that's the reason Google buys services, to introduce new services fast. It saves them a lot of time.
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Jacky
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I find the name TinEye weird. They won't be popular that easily with that weird and uncommon name.
It's like you imagine a tin with one eye, Tintin and what not and they aren't even related.
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spock
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| Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| Jacky wrote: | I find the name TinEye weird. They won't be popular that easily with that weird and uncommon name.
It's like you imagine a tin with one eye, Tintin and what not and they aren't even related. |
I think it is pronounced like Tiny Eye. Like, a small eye  Not a tin eye 
I quite like the name actually.
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ClickFanatic
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| Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Jacky wrote: | I find the name TinEye weird. They won't be popular that easily with that weird and uncommon name.
It's like you imagine a tin with one eye, Tintin and what not and they aren't even related. |
TinEye has received quite some attention, for as far as I can tell. I don't think the name is really that important. Just look how many succesful websites there are with stupid names (not saying TinEye is a stupid name).
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LP-SolidRaven
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| Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| ClickFanatic wrote: | | Jacky wrote: | I find the name TinEye weird. They won't be popular that easily with that weird and uncommon name.
It's like you imagine a tin with one eye, Tintin and what not and they aren't even related. |
TinEye has received quite some attention, for as far as I can tell. I don't think the name is really that important. Just look how many succesful websites there are with stupid names (not saying TinEye is a stupid name). |
Personally I think myspace and facebook are terribly stupid names.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| LP-SolidRaven wrote: | | Personally I think myspace and facebook are terribly stupid names. |
Only if you think about it. If you do, Google is a "stupid" name too.
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A name does not have to be interesting. Just keeping it to one or few syllables will make it easy for people to remember.
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marinaroz
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I just had this brilliant idea to use TinEye to crack the mystery pic competition over at Neopets (If you ever were a Neopets player, you know the one... it's where you're given a small piece of a picture and have to determine where it came from. It's quite difficult and can win you sometimes awesome prizes and a trophy...).
Unfortunately, though, it didn't work at all, and I've tried the current and a few of the old competition pics... I guess either the TinEye database doesn't have the neopets website all scanned up, or the given clue piece is just to small to get any results. Either way, it was a waste of time (but still, a good idea).
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| This has a big brotherish feel to it, but it is still pretty cool. I look forward to the day Google buys them and integrates the technology with a better user interface. |
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Jacky
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| LP-SolidRaven wrote: | http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/
That took long... |
I look forward to the day when it comes out of the Lab. Google hardly fails anyone, eh?
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Haha wow that really didn't take long at all! Has anyone tried to see if the Google Labs version fares any better in terms of results, given that it has a bigger database to work with?
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spock
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| Xtreme $niper wrote: | | Haha wow that really didn't take long at all! Has anyone tried to see if the Google Labs version fares any better in terms of results, given that it has a bigger database to work with? |
The results are a bit different. TinEye searches for images that are almost duplicates, The google labs feature usually shows pictures that look like each other, but they usually aren't duplicates.
So I think they both have different uses.
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