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Images & Photo Tools: Image & Visual Search Engines

Image Search Engines

BING Images
Microsoft's Internet image search engine. Sort results by size, layout, color, style, people.

These search engines search the web or multiple image databases.

GOOGLE Images
Searches the web for images. Subject sort feature. Use Advanced Image Search to retrieve only images labeled for reuse.
FYI: Google Image Search is NOT the host for any image found using it.
You MUST cite the original website where you found the image.
If your URL has http://www.google.com/imgres at the beginning, then you are not citing the original website!

Visual Search Engines

Multicolr Search Lab
Search for Flickr Creative Commons images by color. Select up to 10 colors per search.

Visual search engines search for images using image and visual matching technologies, rather than keywords, tags, or text.

TinEye Reverse Image Search
Upload image or image URL, and TinEye will search the web for images with the same characteristics. Best for finding modified images, cropped or altered images, higher-resolution images, and variations. Firefox plugin available. Idee product.