Google Images provide some unique search features that aren’t available in other photo sharing sites like Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket, Facebook, Corbis, etc.
For instance, with Google Images you can limit search to just pictures that have a face and are colored. Or you could ask Google to only show wallpaper sized pictures and that too of JPEG type. There’s also an option to filter out adult images from the result set.
Taking a cue from Google Images, I have put this Image Search page that brings all the Google goodies to other photo sharing and blogging websites as well.
Type in a search term and select a site that you want to search from the drop down menu. You may refine images results by face, image extension, size, picture color, adult rating, etc.
Internally, it uses Google AJAX API and the site: operator but some may find it slightly more convenient than using the advanced search page of Google Images.
Give it a try specially the "US Govt." option that finds official pictures uploaded on .gov sites.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/find-pictures-with-google-image-search/4581/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Yeah I know Google is very good at finding images, most of the time I use Google Image to find all the images I need. But I never thought about image preference like size,colors etc…
Thanks
Written by Joel on 09.17.08
Hi, I don’t see the options in your screenshot on the Google Images page. How did you get to the search referenced above? Thanks.
Written by nka on 09.17.08
Ok, I see it now, but your article is misleading. You made it sound as if the Google Images dialogue provided for these options, when in fact the page is here: link
Written by nka on 09.17.08
Hi,
If possible can you make the choices as check box and not radio buttons. For example, if I want a small or medium sized picture, I shouldn’t have to do 2 searches.
Written by Ambuj Saxena on 09.17.08
@ link : That’s a good suggestion but unfortunately, the Google Image Search and the AJAX API accepts only one kind of restriction at a time.
So you can’t say that give me images that are either JPEG or PNG. A solution though is that I display different result-sets on the same page for each of the choices.
Written by Amit Agarwal on 09.17.08
Google images works really well most of the time — really useful sometimes for purposes of reference, I know both cartoonists and industrial design types who use as well as gawkers like me.
Written by DennisSC on 09.18.08
I wish that image search would give me more control over the image size. For starters it has no difference between a HQ image or an UHQ image.
Written by Anupam Sinha on 09.19.08