TinEye is a reverse image search engine that is extremely useful in helping us source for people with a particular certification. Say for example you want to find folks who are MCP (Microsoft Certified Professionals) - all you need to do is first find the relevant logo for that particular certification. You can do this by simply pulling up the page of someone you know who already has that logo, or conducting an image search on any image search engine. My favorite way to do this is Zuula because image searches from Bing, Google Flickr, Yahoo, Exalead, Pixsy, Photobucket, SmugMug, Picasa and Stockxchng are all available with one click like this.

Once you have identified an appropriate logo, for exmaple the one you see to the right which was located at this URL, you just need to obtain the address of that image. To do that right-click on the image it and select Image Properties from your browser This reveals information like dimensions, depth, image type (JPEG, GIF and PNG are very common) and file size. The one you want is address. Highlight it with your mouse by clicking on it and either typing CTRL-A or pressing down the mouse button while you drag it across the entire address. Now enter CTRL-C or just right-click on the highlighted address and select Copy, and you have the image address or URL. Keep this one handy if you plan to use it again!

Now take the URL to TinEye and paste it in the box on the right containing the greyed-out "paste URL here (page or image)" and hit the search button. With this example TinyEye shows 3,435 pages where you can find that same logo! Not everyone of those will be a resume of course, but a quick visual scan of the pages listed will easily reveal some very useful results.

But don't stop at certifications! You can also find people based on product logos, company logos, application logos and icons, people's photos, building or location photos, and much much more. Go on, try it out! The eye is the limit!

Psssst.... If you like this and you use Firefox there's an extension for it :)