Document (#25156)

Author

Entlich, R.

Title

FAQ: Image Search Engines

Source

RLG DigiNews 5(2001), no.6, December 2001

Year

2001

Abstract

Everyone loves images. The web wasn't anything until images came along, then it was an overnight success. So how does one find a specific image on the web? By using one of a burgeoning number of image-focused search engines. These search engines are simply optimized versions of typical web indexes, with crawlers that go around sucking down web content and indexing it. But with image search engines, they focus on images only, and the web page text that may describe them. As information professionals, we know that this is a clumsy approach at best, but as the author puts it, until more sophisticated methods become available, the tools profiled here will "have to suffice." Seven search engines are thoroughly tested in this review article, with Google's Image Search (http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en) being the highest rated

Footnote

http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-6.html#faq

Theme

Suchmaschinen

Form

Bilder

Object

Google

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