Search Engines

Finding Images on the Web

Search Engines

Search engines allow you to search millions of the billion pages (URLs) on the Web by keywords, subjects, phrases, titles, and names. The ones listed below are among the most popular. The major search engines now let you do image searching without keying in an image command. Google has the largest number of images in its image collection.

AltaVista

Click on Image.
In Search Box, type:   giraffe   or     Dido and Aeneas

Ask Jeeves
In Search Box, type:    Where can I find pictures of giraffes?    or    Dido and Aeneas?

Google

Choose Images.
In Search Box, type:   giraffe   or     Dido and Aeneas

Hotbot

In Search Box, type: giraffe or Dido and Aeneas
Under Custom Web Filters, click Preferences, under Page Content, click Image

Lycos MultiMedia Search (also Fast Search)

Click on Pictures.
In Search Box, type: giraffe or Dido and Aeneas

Metacrawler (DittoVPP)

From pull-down menu, choose Images.
In Search Box, type: giraffe or Dido and Aeneas

Ran Hock, "A New Era of Search Engines: Not Just Web Pages Anymore," Online, September 2002, 20-27 (Images, p. 26).

Go To Image Search Engines

Page by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer
rthomas@bu.edu (617) 353-3714
Updated February 2003