Tineye is not an end-all-be-all. Don't expect much from it
Tineye is essentially a web crawler, digging around on the web to find every picture it can. However, like most web crawlers, it can only access images on wide-open, unsecured servers. That doesn't include anywhere near every image on the Internet. While many overseas servers (especially the eastern-european ones) lack security, only a very small percentage here in the states are that open. Have you noticed that the majority of Tineye's results come from domains other than. COM. NET (meaning they're mostly outside the US) , and the links are often broken? Most sites here in the US store images on secure servers where crawlers can't reach them, and that's especially true of sites with well-known privacy expectations like Facebook. Hell, Facebook recently started using a Java applet to display a user's full-sized images so (among other reasons) you can no longer right-click to save a local copy of the image.
The only saving grace is that most of the US-based sites that offer hot-young-lingerie-model or girls-gone-wild type pics are for-pay and and tightly controlled, and most hookers aren't going to shell out the membership fee just to steal photos, so they end up going to those open offshore sites that Tineye can crawl.
So by all means use Tineye as a tool, but recognize that like most tools it is suitable only for a limited set of purposes.
Lit2 questions F. Scott's Methods
[QUOTE=fscott;1198850]Don't forget the off-site email. Often when a baby responds there, her email address indicates a name other than the one she is using on the site. Shocking, I know, but true. She has just surrendered a personal morsel of info about herself, and now you have the beginnings of a bond.[/QUOTE]F. Scott,
With respect, why do you want to deny the sb her anonymity if that's what she wants?
Isn't it her belief in anonymity that makes possible her utr activity? If there is no legitimate reason for tracking down her true identity, I think you should let her remain anonymous. First, she may be very unhappy if she finds out you have found out who she really is. Why be cruel? Second, she may be discouraged from participating in utr / sb activity. Mongers lose.
"Beginnings of a bond"?
What are you talking about?
I guess I don't see how or why ferreting out the sb's true identity is going to help you fuck her and it seems hostile to the girl.
As to masquerading as an sb yourself with the fake photo of an escort as supposedly you, this kind of thing will be very annoying to those of us trying to find and penetrate female sex organs if we inadvertently stumble across your fake profile.
Perhaps I fail to understand something. In which case, please explain.
By the way, are you by any chance a student? I ask because one of my sbs told me about a college student who had figured out her true identity and pursued her in the guise of a rich businessman supposedly flying around on his private jet and supposedly sending limousines to pick her up for supposed big bucks mega dates and so on. Of course, the student never actually dared to meet her. It was a big waste of time for the girl. Some legitimate mongers lost their chances to have sex with the sb. I guess it was an amusing joke for the student but somewhat disruptive of the orderly flow of sbs to the pussy hungry mongers who inhabit this forum.
Others may disagree. That's ok. Just my views.
I go away for the weekend and look what happens
Gentlemen,
Imagine my surprise and amusement when I logged on to see what Literal and the rest of you had been up to and I find that my innocent post has stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy. I will attempt to clarify my remarks and then perhaps desist from posting here in the future.
My intention in commenting that many of these babies use a traceable name, picture or the like was two-fold; first, as Questor surmises, I was warning us all that in the age of digital information, almost anyone can find supposedly hidden or private information about you. I have set up an email account using my SD "name" so that anyone searching that name could only find information that I have put there. Seems only like common sense. Secondly, my comment about their naivety in using traceable information was to illustrate that the majority of these young women are, in fact, amateurs and not pros. Something we are all in search of.
I have never disclosed that I found out any information about them when we meet. I agree with you, Literal, that would just be cruel, probably freak them out, and be counterproductive to the stated goal. Fucking them. I find, for me, that it helps me to assure myself that they are not providers in the literal sense.
In terms of the "beginnings of a bond" comment, the bond I was referring to was one of a mutual sharing of a level of personal information. Their profiles on the sb sites are what they have crafted, as real or as fantastical as they want. When they email me off-site, a real name is always given, and an email that corroborates that is often used as well. Again, an indication of a level of trust in you; you have cleared the first hurdle, so to speak.
I am not a stalker, Literal, nor am I a student "playing games". I was merely sharing my thoughts about the process with similarly-interested hobbyists. There is nothing like this where I am from. Most of my compatriots are obsessing over BP ads from providers of dubious quality. The only thing I want to catch is a home run ball at Wrigley field.
As for my fake profile, I feel I gleaned and shared valuable and helpful information from it. If any of you have been inconvenienced by my lack of response to your contacts to me, I apologize, and offer this slight consolation: you wouldn't have gotten anywhere with me anyway. You all have penises.
In closing, I offer this last warning, and then a parting comment. I received a picture off-site from someone I contacted on SA that somehow didn't seem quite right. I tin-eyed it. No hits. My browser said it had been scanned for viruses and none were found. Still, my spidey-sense was tingling. I then right-clicked and looked at the image information, and it turned out it was html code, and thus probably some sort of trojan or other malicious intrusion. Before you download anything sent to you, check it every which-way.
Now, to you, Literal. In my experience, every chat room, forum or other internet-based discussion group a "barn boss" emerges. My excuses to the rest of you earnest sd's, but that clearly is you. I am sorry to have intruded on you turf. I enjoy reading of your exploits, and will continue to do so, but will henceforth refrain from stealing focus.
All my best to you all, and keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Scott