We now have four reasonably efficient image search engines:
Yahoo Images, Google Image Search, Microsoft Images, Ask Images
The problem with all image search strategies is the reliance upon tags and descriptions of the the images. A good image search must allow the use of related terms, not just search the caption or tag information attached to the image alone.
If you are looking for a person, then a search by his or her name may not find anything. The use of other terms associated with the person may yield better results. After some trial and error we have found the following search strategies work best when looking for pictures of people.
Yahoo
This includes Flikr images & tags. The best search strategy seems to be searching without quotations for name & related terms.
Search the person’s name & related terms in quotations for best results.
Microsoft
Search all terms without quotes.
Ask
This searches picture captions only.
0 Responses to “Image Searches”