May 17, 2013
It was only 15 years ago that the best you could do to find a person online was look for him on ICQ and hope you find his name. If you managed to do that, you were actually nowhere nearer to knowing anything about this person, except for the fact he owns an ICQ account. If you were very brave, you might have requested to add that person to your contacts, just to see what happens.
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May 1, 2013
One of the biggest tasks we have at MakeUseOf is finding images for our articles. You see, we don't have a separate staff of five hundred photojournalists who travel all over the world for us and take photographs to complement our articles. There isn't a VR studio at the MakeUseOf online office where photogs can set up lengthy holo-sessions with professional models. No, dear readers. We have to find these images for ourselves.
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April 13, 2013
The Bing vs. Google race has just become tighter with the launch of Bing's new Pinterest integration. The new feature adds a handy "Pin it" button to every image result on Bing, making it possible to pin it to your Pinterest boards without needing to go to the actual website, or even open the full-size version of the image.
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April 10, 2013
What’s your main use for Google Image Search? Do you use it to search similar images? Or do you put it to any of the uses I listed in my advanced Google Search for images article quite a while ago? All of them are still relevant by the way. Then there are some of the more unusual uses of Google Image Search…alternatives that takes it away from the beaten path.
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March 20, 2013
Google brings two new search filters to its image search tools, making it almost impossible to not find what you're looking for. The new filters can help you find animated GIFs, which are almost as old as the Web but surprisingly popular nonetheless, as well as images with a transparent background, which are useful for various design projects and a wide variety of other purposes.
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January 12, 2013
Creative Commons images have lots of takers and find a place in everything from presentations to blogging. There are lots of ways to search for Creative Commons images labeled for reuse. Now, with the help of Yahoo Image Search, you can tap into Flickr and its huge databank of Creative Commons images.
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October 17, 2012
Image recognition is getting better by the day. Perhaps, that’s why we keep talking about it so much. The reverse search engine that usually gets most of the clicks is TinEye. We didn’t miss out on covering it when it came out. And then, we went back to it when we wanted to show you what a reverse image search could do for you. TinEye has stuck around and today one can genuinely say that it is a genuine alternative search engine.
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September 17, 2012
For more day to day mundane uses, we need free images for decorate a blog post, seek inspiration, set a wallpaper, make a collage, or just finish the school homework. This post thus takes a ‘back-to-basics’ approach and attempts to go over the same image searching ground as before, but in a more comprehensive manner. I hope to again show that searching for the right free image is easy enough, provided you know where to look.
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August 28, 2012
When it comes to textual works, we have seen how easy it is to catch the copycats. But what about pictures and photographs? Is image search that easy? Probably not; but that’s not to say it is impossible because image search technologies have evolved. Making an effort to defeat image plagiarism is this simple Firefox extension called Who Stole My Pictures.
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June 29, 2012
Looking to add some images to your blog post? Obviously, I sympathize. All of the writers at MakeUseOf are on the prowl for ways to add some visual flair to our articles, but we also have to make sure we respect the rights of photographers while doing so. That’s why we like Creative Commons content.
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May 2, 2012
Bing’s image search once challenged Google, offering more features and a better design. With infinite scrolling and the ability to search for similar images, Bing was legitimately better than Google at image search just a few years ago. But since then, Google has closed the ground and made a lot of progress. Where do they stand now, and which should be your image search engine of choice?
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April 17, 2012
I’m convinced that the animated GIF reveals something about humanity. Present your average person with a repetitive moving picture and they’ll become absolutely entranced. I’ve lost many hours of my life to dancing bears and dogs doing barrel rolls. Despite this, there’s no GIF-equivalent of YouTube. Browsing Google for sites offering animated GIFs will introduce you to website train-wrecks.
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January 12, 2012
These days you don’t have to limit your search to just websites. Many other forms of content are easy to find, including images. No matter what you’re looking for, an image is (for better or worse) just one image search away. You may wonder, however, how image search works. How are images sorted and classified, making it possible to find tens or hundreds of relevant results?
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July 21, 2011
Public Domain refers to material that is 'publicly available' and not covered by intellectual property or copyrights. In today's media, where visual art is abundant, there is a high demand for images, for example for webdesign projects. As a consequence, there are many stock photography websites where artists can sell their photographs or image designs.
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April 23, 2011
We have featured the Flickr Interestingness section in a few popular articles in the past. It is quite obvious that we (as well as our readers) love the feature because it is unique and really smart. It's been working wonders for discovering the most creative photography artwork. For me, Flickr Interestingness has always been a constant stream of inspiration.
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