How to search for images with Google

Initially, the websites and web pages were made to contain text contents and with time and a real evolution in the codes and development of the web, internet users and website creators were able to insert images, videos, animation and other various contents.

With the upcoming of graphic designing tools like Photoshop or Aftereffects, people were able to create high resolution images of very good quality within their website space. These images are either used for illustrating there work, to make up an art/picture gallery within one’s blog or simply to add a little bit of fancy to a web space. If you wish to find a particular image on the web without having to look for hundreds of other websites from which you will have to browse the contents and seek the images that can probably be found in them, Google provides you with a simple tool that can solve this issue in less than 2 seconds; Google Images!

How does it work?

Images that are inserted in a webpage can contain a tag, a caption, a description or simply a title. While making a query about an image, these tags/captions/descriptions/title will be browsed for by Google, and the results matching the queried words will be displayed.

Example

If you are looking for an image to illustrate this article, the best one to look for will be based on Google (why not the Google logo?). Thus, go to the Google homepage, www.google.com and choose the “Images” tab found in the top left corner of the window. Once done, you will see that the display of the window will altered to include the Google Image Search logo, in addition to the “Advanced search image” and “Preferences” on the right section of the searching field. All you have to do now is to enter “Google image search logo” in the field provided for this intent.

What are the advantages of Google Image Search?

There are many advantages to them. First of all, if some tags do not match your search or if the wrong tabs have been given to the images that you are looking for, you will still have the thumbnails displayed so you will have a preview of the image that you will save to your computer.

Also, you can search for the images that you need in terms of size. This feature is found just below the search field on your left. You can also look for them in terms of content.

The “Advanced Image Search” feature allows you to precise your queries in terms of Related words, Content types, size, Filetypes, Coloration, Domain and SafeSearch.