Showing posts with label memetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memetics. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Reverse Image Search

I've been busy working on my thesis and came across a few interesting tools related to what I'm researching. Here's one: tineye.com bills itself as a "Reverse Image Search Engine." You upload a picture from your computer, and it points you to different places hosting the picture or some variation of it. I immediately thought it would be useful for finding online meme origins, so I input this image:



And ended up finding this:



Along with a hundred other variations. Okay, it's not the most brilliant bit of investigation, but it was fun.