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Quintura - visual search engine. IncyWincy: The Invisible Web Search Engine. SearchBoth.com - Search both Google & Yahoo at the same time! Side by Side searching makes web search fun again. Pictures. Corbis Images – Premium Quality Stock Photography and Illustrations. Incogna Image Search. Findr. Check out tagtree.net for different versions of findr findr Find photos on flickr by browsing and refining related tags.

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Click here to start (you need to enter the initial tag). Flash 7 required The most interesting feature of this experiment is the ability to refine your search by eliminating tags. I also like seeing how querying by more and more tags eliminates a large percentage of photos. It's also a good way to see find tag spamming: 1, 2.

That said, it's really all about looking at pictures. Thanks for visiting. Doug I couldn't have done this without Kelvin Luck's fantastic Flickr API wrapper for Flash . Top 5 Black & White Image Search Engines. I believe the reason is that when your eye is not focusing on color, you are able to see other things like the lights and darks of a picture, the feeling expressed, the mood created, etc.

Top 5 Black & White Image Search Engines

If you share my passion for black and white photography, you will find this toolset especially useful and bookmark-worthy: the top 5 image search engines to find black and white photos. 1. Multicolr Multicolr is a Flickr-based image search engine that allows you to search by color (I’ve already mentioned it previously). To see only black and white photography, all you need is to pick colors from the last row: 2.

Only few people know that Yahoo can be the best Flickr image search engine you’ve ever tried; mainly, because it has some useful search option that Flickr doesn’t. 3. Corbisimages is my preferred stock images search engine that both contains a high-quality selection of creative photography and offers a robust search feature with lots of features. 4. 5. What are you favourite image search engines? Search For Similar Images Online Using Images Rather Than Keywords. Of course we already have a plethora of color-based image search engines as well as other fun search tools we have been reviewing from time to time, but most of them have one thing in common: the keyword comes first: we use words to search.

Search For Similar Images Online Using Images Rather Than Keywords

This post is about another type of search: where an image comes first. By using images as a basis for queries the new advanced image search tools coming out of development are able to provide a totally different (beyond the advanced) type of experience. As the technology is still in its infancy, various developers are working on specific kinds of practical applications for this type of search.

The three services that I think currently put the concept to its best uses are: 1. The BYO Image Search Lab was one of the earliest image-based search engines to appear online. Either use a base image from their PC as a starting point for a search,or they can use a URL path from an online image instead. 2.