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Web Singletons?

Posted by timothy on from the magrathea-dot-com dept.

tcmb writes "There are an uncounted number of web mail and picture sharing services, there are more than enough web sites for online bookmark management and friend-finding, but as far as I know there is only one Internet Archive. Which are the true web singletons, services that exist only once in this form?" And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

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  1. TinEye.com by kinabrew · · Score: 4, Interesting

    TinEye.com is an image search engine that works like this:

    It analyzes images it finds online, by looking at their pixels and dimensions.

    To search, a user uploads an image, and TinEye returns a list of links to similar images, said images' dimensions, and links to the pages on which said images are posted.

    It's useful for finding originals from photoshopped images and for finding images in a series if you have only one image and know it's part of a series.

    And no, I don't work for them(but I do use the site almost daily).