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Although you can find icons and clip art with the all-purpose image search
engines, these image types all have their own specialized engines, which
is why I put them in their own category. Please keep in mind that most
materials that you will find with these search tools are copyright protected,
and that you should ask for permission before you use them. All Purpose Image Search Engines The Top Four: All
the Web / Fast Multimedia Search Ditto.com AltaVista Image
Search
Bengt's Photo Page Check out the Archives link from this photo enthusiast's web site Go Graph Select photo
button to search, or see the subject directory which includes: Animals,
Buildings, Landscape, Nature, Transportation, Weapons, World Maps Image Finder from Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. This has a multiple list of site search tools: Architectural Images | DL SunSITE | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Images 1 (Nat'l Library of Aust.) | Library of Congress | Library of Virginia | NASA | NAU Cline Library | PictureAustralia | Smithsonian Institution Mamma.com A meta-engine and "The mother of all search engines". Select "Images" and then type in your search. Picsearch.com According to their web site, picsearch "has a relevancy unrivalled on the web due to it's patent-pending indexing algorithms. Also, Picsearch has a family friendliness that allows children to surf in safety as all offensive material is filtered out by our advanced filtering systems." Proteus Image Search A meta image searcher that includes Alta Vista, Amazing Picture Machine, Arthur, Lycos, and Yahoo/ Webshots "...photo screen saver / wallpaper program and photo album." Yahoo Picture Gallery
Unfortunately this site seems to have a bias towards Corbis images, which
you must purchase. Icon/Clip Art Search Tools The Icon Browser (In Knight (1998) Also referred to in Media Builder. MetaLab, University of North Carolina Webplaces.com Clip Art Searcher In Knight (1998) Includes Answers, Hotbot, Lycos, Filez, 1-Click (some of these also search for images and sounds) Enter the word for the image that you want and add gif or jpg extensions and then do your search.
Artcyclopedia "The fine art search engine." Public Health Image Library
"PHIL is an extensive collection of still images, image sets, and
multimedia files related to public health." Most of the images in
the collection are in the public domain and are thus free of any copyright
restrictions, but see the PHIL site for conditions of use. You are responsible for obeying copyright laws and any conditions stated on the sites that you access. . |