Picsearch

September 4, 2001 3:47 PM

Picsearch is (as the more linguistically adept might have guessed) a search engine designed expressly for images. It's only been live for a month, so it hasn't spidered nearly the volume of google's image search, but it's on the right track. Are there others I don't know about?
posted by gleuschk (14 comments total)

thanks for post. I wil lbe able to use this. for pics, the more the better.
posted by Postroad at 3:50 PM on September 4, 2001

images.altavista.com
posted by crunchland at 3:59 PM on September 4, 2001

yeah, those I bet those were the most popular searches of the week...
posted by machaus at 4:01 PM on September 4, 2001

Don't forget Ditto.com.
posted by waxpancake at 4:09 PM on September 4, 2001

I searched for MeFi, thinking nothing would turn up and I could condemn it to utter damnation. In fact seven quite beautiful logos turned up, all with a different little message. So I'm afraid it's way to go, picsearch.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 5:29 PM on September 4, 2001

man... when I first saw this thread, I thought I saw "PIEsearch" ..

mmmmm..... pie.
posted by j at 6:39 PM on September 4, 2001

Nice. Picsearch seems to result in far more useful finds than say...Ditto.com. Less quantity, more quality. Thanks gleuschk.
posted by lucien at 8:23 PM on September 4, 2001

And it's written by Swedes. What could be better?
posted by gleuschk at 9:00 PM on September 4, 2001

Looks like picsearch pulled a 123hosting. Compare their search tips with All About Google.
posted by MarkO at 9:19 PM on September 4, 2001

After trying a few sample searches I have to say Google Image Search is the one to beat, in both quantity and quality. Compare a search for "particle accelerator". Google: 149. Picsearch: 2. (Also, Google lets you read the URL right off the results page without have to click for it, which is nice.) Still, nice to have choices.
posted by krebby at 10:48 AM on September 5, 2001

Um, not to sound like I work for Altavista (I don't), but their image search engine came up with 1684 images when I searched for photos or graphics, B&W or color, with the words 'particle accelerator.'
posted by crunchland at 10:55 AM on September 5, 2001

man... when I first saw this thread, I thought I saw "PIEsearch"

When I first saw this thread, I thought I saw "PIsearch." I thought maybe it was some kind of SETI@home thing to finally nail down that final digit ...

Mmmmmm ... pi ...
posted by Shadowkeeper at 2:49 PM on September 5, 2001

that final digit ...

Ain't no such animal.

Don't make me break out the tired old bit about rational/irrational/transcendental numbers. There's nothing scarier than a geek with an axe to grind.

(Hey, new tagline.)
posted by gleuschk at 3:52 PM on September 5, 2001

Naw, Crunch, the quote marks are critical to glue the terms together. Searching "particle accelerator" on image.altavista only yields 7 hits...
posted by krebby at 9:43 PM on September 5, 2001