Monday, October 24, 2016

Search Engines



Advanced Image Search at Bing.com - offers images in different resolutions and also categorizes images. Allows free querying of the Bing Image Search API up to a certain limit per day.

Advanced Image Search at images.google.com - use the advanced search feature to return images from the site or domain ".gov". {{PD-USGov}} may apply to such images.

everystockphoto.com - Searching over 4.3 million public domain and creative commons photos including Wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, and other features.

Google Image Search - Advanced search can search for free licensed or PD works By default, Google does not filter based on license. Add the following (without quotes) to your search URL to display only images with public domain licensing: "&tbs=sur:fmc"

PicFindr.com - Searches a hand picked collection of public domain-, free stock photo-, and photo community sites. Includes the ability to search by rights! (whether you need to give credit, ask permission or not)

Spffy.com - Searches one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed. (NB - Firefox users only - website will not open with Internet Explorer)

Wayback Machine Search 150 Billion web pages preserved by the Internet Archive.


Image search providers



Commercial Stock Photo Metasearch Engines

CrystalGraphics stock photos at this link:   http://www.crystalgraphics.com/powerpictures/images.photos.asp?ss=metasearch

PhotoStock metasearch engine at this link:  https://www.shutterstock.com/search/metasearch

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