Web Search Garage

Specialized Image Search Engines

PicSearch—http://www.picsearch.com/

When you first see PicSearch you might think to yourself, “Hey! Where's all the search options and pulldown menus?” They're not on the front page; all you can do here is a simple keyword search.

If you go to the advance search page you'll see a familiar search option for size, only the size option provides the size (in pixels) of the images that you'll be looking for. You'll also see an option to search for images, animations, or both. The found images are animated GIFs that will display in all current browsers without additional software (unlike, say, Flash animations).

I find PicSearch's image search to provide fewer results than Google's image search, but at the same time ...