Google Image Search could be used in many ways.
1. If you want to know if a person is a man or a woman and the name doesn't help, do a search for the name.
2. If you don't know the meaning of a word, the pictures may help you.
3. A better search for Flickr. Google uses information from other sites that link to Flickr photos, so you may find Google search better.
4. Find what's interesting about a site, by looking at the pictures included. For example:
wired.com.
5. Find a new wallpaper for your desktop by restricting your search to large images. You can automate this using
an application.
6. Find
random personal pictures, using standard file names from digital cameras.
7. Type the name of a painter and you can take an art class.
8. Install
a Greasemonkey script so you can view the original version of the image directly by clicking on the thumbnail.
9. Find the
color of a word. "Word Color is a windows program that uses Google Image Search to determine the color of a word or string of words. It goes out there, retrieves the top 9 images and loops through all pixels, calculating the average hue, which is later converted to a color."
10. If you want to grab search results,
GoogleGrab is a tool that downloads images from Google Image Search. It even supports batch search.
Labels: Greasemonkey, Image Search, Tips
said on November 1, 2006 1:08 AM PDT:
How about Flickr image search?
said on November 1, 2006 3:46 AM PDT:
Your sentence "You can also find many information about" suddenly stops, now you got me curious :)
Vote for Ionut's article:
http://digg.com/tech_news/10_Tips_For_Google_Image_Search
said on November 1, 2006 9:52 AM PDT:
Anyone ever heard of goorip? www,goorip.com, it takes google images and directly posts them.
narnia said on November 1, 2006 9:59 AM PDT:
I'm not sure what this list is supposed to be/do/promote. Take an art class? Who do you think you are?
said on November 1, 2006 10:22 AM PDT:
Don't forget to turn Safe Search off to broaden your search results (as long as you don't mind some NSFW pics)
Dom said on November 1, 2006 10:40 AM PDT:
Easier than a Greasemonkey script there is the firefox extension
Google Image relinker
marco said on November 1, 2006 1:41 PM PDT:
Instead of the Greasemonkey Script I use
Customize Google Firefox Extension. Does the same for images, but a lot of other cool Google stuff :)
said on January 25, 2007 10:00 AM PDT:
from Avesland@AOL.com
How do you remove the new cursor-
activated highlighting from
Google Image Search ? This idiotic
feature is a huge distractiion if you are doing serious research.
What moron dreamed up this nonsense ?
said on June 19, 2007 10:46 AM PDT:
I have been studying Astronomy, at MaDonna University and have found the best images for all my power point presentations from this web site. I tell every one I know to use your web site.
In general I have found some of my sites with good pictures (and names) get quite a few hits from google image search. Does anyone know approximately how long it takes to get a new image indexed? Does it happen at the same time your site is crawled with any google bot?
said on August 9, 2007 7:47 PM PDT:
Good posting. It really helps a lot. This is so terrible. I will tell this to my friends and relatives to visit your site and also to the friends of their friends to
contact us for some hint and tips. I'm sure they are glad to have this. I really love this. Thanks for posting and more power! :)
said on October 7, 2007 8:43 PM PDT:
try MediaMingle.com . It is what image search should be.
Just like your standard search parameters, the image search works as it should when you utilize specific search parameters. If you can't find what you are looking for simply adjust the terms you searching under and lo and behold you'll find it.
Great stuff, I especially liked the first tip about a person's gender! BTW, I found useful when looking for some B&W pics that it's good to put "drawing" beside the name of what you are looking for.
suva said on June 21, 2008 12:49 AM PDT:
Is it possible to direct upload the image in image.google.com ?
Eric said on August 1, 2008 10:07 AM PDT:
Yes these are the best searching tips not only for the starters but for the experts as well. A must have formula for google search.
abdul said on August 15, 2008 5:47 AM PDT:
Very nice tips regarding google image search engine..
Well it is very simple to deindex or remove images from google search engine..
just enter the robots.txt file in root directory:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/corn.jpg
Please checkout for more details:http://elechub.com/how-can-i-remove-an-image-from-image-search/
This is how u can delete any image from google search...
thank you..
regards,
Elechub-SEO
good tips..
still i'm using some of the above tips.
how can add a picture to google search?
can i download such tips/ helps as any formats like .pdf, .doc, etc.???
its very use full for me its good tips
Mobin said on September 9, 2008 9:58 AM PDT:
How I Add alt text or img src in my blogger images i have to do it in edit html or i do in compose mode
my website is arabvdo.com and i upload 1000 pic a day pls help that how i edit my photos to get in google image search
If possible pls show example
venkat said on October 20, 2008 3:54 AM PDT:
Nice tips to search for Google Images
us said on October 28, 2008 3:30 PM PDT:
Well it is very simple to deindex or remove images from google search engine.
provacyl said on October 28, 2008 3:32 PM PDT:
Does anyone know approximately how long it takes to get a new image indexed?
said on November 8, 2008 1:36 AM PDT:
i think that the google imaging is a good thing i am yasir with my friend adil from kashmir india gooooood bye
said on November 15, 2008 10:03 AM PDT:
Okay... everyone keeps ignoring the same question so I'll ask again: does anyone know how long it takes Google to add an image to its image search? It's certainly slower than their indexing of a page. Does anyone know a way to add images for Google to index or make it easier for Google to index? Thanks.
fig said on November 17, 2008 3:41 AM PDT:
Nice tips
johni said on November 23, 2008 12:50 AM PDT:
Is there any web search engine available on the net where can perform image based searching,i mean it work on image matching approach.ask me to browse image from my computer and search relevent data.
Martin said on November 23, 2008 2:55 AM PDT:
An issue was raised in the previous post about the duration of google adding image to its image search... i guess whenever google is indexing websites and paging they do their image addition..
Polaski said on November 23, 2008 2:58 AM PDT:
Hey @Alex i have tried TinEye but the weird thing is that you have to first sign in and then you can do a search . isn't it a bit strange?
I think it takes 7 days for and image to be indexed by google.
drogen said on November 23, 2008 11:03 AM PDT:
Excellent advice!
Your site has very much liked me.
I shall necessarily tell about him to the friends.
its nice for me its good tips
rishi said on December 22, 2008 2:01 AM PDT:
Very good tips. Thanks for the guidelines.
firefox extension works great. thanks for the tip.
Hi there,
I added my page to the search long time ago - yet won't be found. Does someone know the criteria?
Stoffe said on January 26, 2009 10:24 AM PDT:
I like image search but sometime it works uns sometime not - i did not find out how come.
Geburtstag said on February 22, 2009 10:19 PM PDT:
I set lots of deeplinks on the Images - leading to my Geburtstag page, get, Google Imagesearch seems to just ignore it. Some others, older images are beeing found. What do I possibly do wrong?
putting an alt text to your images will help to get it listed in google image search.
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Very good tips. Thanks for the guidelines...
liseliler said on February 28, 2009 4:29 AM PDT:
Great stuff, I especially liked the first tip about a person's gender! BTW, I found useful when looking for some B&W pics that it's good to put "drawing" beside the name of what you are looking for.
anoop said on March 7, 2009 5:20 AM PDT:
great .. but i want to add my flickr and picasa web albums add into google image result with my name "anoop kumar singh " .how it possible
the albums link r ..
http://picasaweb.google.com/anoopdreams/AnoopSingh#
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liveanoop
how come one site that is not having the keyword related to my search is having a photo on the google normal search up above everything?
kipram said on March 26, 2009 8:06 AM PDT:
Wow this is nice info for me, thank you
Thanks for these wonderful tips. I think its really very good and helpful for me. I am a web designer and searching pictures is a big part of my job. And everyone now if you are searching for anything google is the best place for you. Thanks alot for the tips once again.
Good List.I guess google uses rating system for image placement
Gen said on April 20, 2009 9:26 AM PDT:
Excellent advice! I added my page to the search long time ago - yet won't be found.
Good & unique feature . I have been shared it with my group. Hope they will get benefit from it.
these are great tips. thanks.
said on May 1, 2009 3:31 PM PDT:
First of all just because images are in Google Image search doesn't mean their free for the taking. I know several people having legal troubles because they took images and wanted to profit off someone else's work. Be careful and get copyright free images or license them.
It takes about 3-6 months to get images ranked in google. News images will pop up rather quick but it seems most other topics are pretty slow. Its not like organic search.
Thanks for this tips.
If your web site's page rank is high, then google adds it in a less time.
I was looking for this from while. thanks for sharing this informations...
Google image search help me in finding good relevent images. I am car lovers.always getting good images of different car models to put on my desktop.
Acai said on May 25, 2009 12:25 PM PDT:
I have been studying Astronomy, at MaDonna University and have found the best images for all my power point presentations from this web site. I tell every one I know to use your web site.
Victoria said on June 14, 2009 4:51 PM PDT:
This got me confused "If you want to know if a person is a man or a woman and the name doesn't help, do a search for the name. "
Phaoloo said on July 2, 2009 7:27 AM PDT:
Awesome tips, that's why Google is still the best search engine.
