gHacks technology news » google image search http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:34:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Google Adds Quick Search Options To Google Image Search http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/01/google-adds-quick-search-options-to-google-image-search/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/01/google-adds-quick-search-options-to-google-image-search/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:16:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14968 google imagesGoogle introduced a new feature to Google Search in last month that would allow users to quickly change several important factors of the search without having to configure them in advanced options or using a plugin or add-on to do so. The new features are available by clicking on the options link in the Google search results. They are displayed on the same page in a sidebar like interface and provide quick access to options that allow a user to change the time period of the search results, the type of results, view related searches or display more text in the description of each search result than usual.

This new type of comfortably accessing search options has now been brought to Google Images as well. Users who conduct a search in the Google Image search engine will now be able to click on the same Options link to access and change several important search parameters.

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The options allow a search engine user to specify a certain size for the images that are displayed in the search results, change the type of image (face, photo, clip art or line drawing) or specify a dominant color. All of these options are also available in the advanced image search parameters. The benefit for the search engine user is that these options are now directly accessible.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/01/google-adds-quick-search-options-to-google-image-search/feed/ 7 Google Image Relinker http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/25/google-image-relinker/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/25/google-image-relinker/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:26:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14746 google imagesGoogle Image Search is a very comprehensive image search engine. It basically works the same way as the standard Google search with the difference that image thumbnails are displayed as results on the results pages. Additional information like the domain name the image was posted on or the size of the image are displayed on the result pages as well. Filters allow the user to find images that match certain criteria like resolutions or colors.

One aspect of Google Image Search that is bugging many users is that it does not link directly to the image but to a Google page that displays the website containing the image in a frame. This means that users need to click on the image to be taken to the framed page where they can either scroll until they find the image or click on the image that is displayed on top to display the full sized image.

The Google Image Relinker userscript changes this default behavior by linking directly to the images in the Google Image search results pages. The developer has confirmed that the script works in Firefox, Opera and Seamonkey with the possibility that it will work in other web browsers that support userscripts (Google Chrome, Safari) as well.

The script basically safes time by allowing the user to view the image directly from the search result pages. A link to the framed version (which is the default way) is provided as well. Google Image Relinker is an interesting userscript for those users who work with the Google Image Search engine regularly.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/25/google-image-relinker/feed/ 3 Life Photo Archive Online http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/19/life-photo-archive-online/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/19/life-photo-archive-online/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:57:27 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8395 A deal between Life and Google makes more than 10 million photographic images available on the Internet. The collection spans from the 1750s to today. Google provides a special search engine for the collection that makes use of the Google Image Search engine.

The collection centers around five areas called People (Kennedy, Picasso), Places (Times Square, New York), Events (Vietnam War, Winter Olympics), Sports (baseball, football) or Culture (Railroad, Cowboys). It is possible to enter any search term which is usually good enough to find many images related to the keyword.

A click on an image will display a larger thumbnail and additional information about it including the location or date taken. The very same page contains links to related images and an option to purchase it as a framed photograph. A click on the image will load it in full size in a new window.

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Image resolutions range from 800×1280 to 1280×1280. Could be a nice idea for a present or as a background wallpaper for the PC.

Google Image Search can also be used to search the Life Photo Archive exclusively by appending the source:life parameter to the search.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/19/life-photo-archive-online/feed/ 3 Grab Images from Google Image Search http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/22/grab-images-from-google-image-search/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/22/grab-images-from-google-image-search/#comments Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:25:06 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/07/22/grab-images-from-google-image-search/ I bet you all know the google image search service which displays only thumbails of pictures that are related to your search terms. You load the full sized image by clicking on one of the thumbnails and may save that one manually to your hard drive. This process is taking a long time if you for example would like to save the first 100 results because they look all so nice..

An alternative to the manual process is using a freeware application like googlegrab which automatically saves the full size images to a newly created folder that is named after the search terms. The program is pretty straight forward. Enter a search term and click search. Googlegrab does everything else. It creates a folder, saves all images to that folder.

You can set some options as well. First, you can limit the downloads to x pictures, the default is 1000. Then you can opt ot download only pictures of a certain size, you can turn downloads for five sizes on or off. (XXL, XL, L, M and S). Then you can turn off child save searches which is probably a good idea and see a preview of the current image.

Googlegrab is available for PC and Mac, great tool.

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