Just show me the picture!
31 August 2010 | By Andrew in YourSite Newsletter
This is just in case, as I’m amazed at how many people are simply not aware of Google Images for searching.
If you are one of those people browse to http://images.google.com/ right now!
Google images organises the images on the internet just like it does websites, and you can search in the normal way with keywords and phrases.
Read this weeks DO#3 on image alt tags on your website. This is why!
Searching by images can be a very efficient way to find companies by visually scanning for a logo you know, or for finding a product online by simply glancing down the page. Here are a few advanced tricks -
For extra large images like wallpapers add &imgsz=huge.
Want to search for just peoples’ faces? Add &imgtype=face
To restrict your Google image search for only free public domain images add this parameter to your image search results url – &as_rights=(cc_publicdomain|cc_attribute).-(cc_noncommercial|cc_nonderived)