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Images: Search Engines

Find and effectively use images in your research.

Image Search Engines

These search engines search the web or multiple image databases.

Bing Images
Microsoft's internet image search engine. Sort results by size, layout, color, style, people.
Google Images
Searches the web for images. Subject sort feature. Use Advanced Image Search to retrieve only images labeled for reuse.
OAIster
Open access digital resources from libraries and archives. Use Advanced Search to limit results to images. OCLC/Worldcat.

Visual Search Engines

Visual search engines search for images using image and visual matching technologies, rather than keywords, tags, or text.

Google Lens
An image recognition app that provides information about objects in your photos.
Multicolr Search Lab
Search for Flickr Creative Commons images by color. Select up to 10 colors per search.
TinEye Reverse Image Search
Upload image or image URL, and TinEye will search the web for images with the same characteristics. Best for finding modified images, cropped or altered images, higher-resolution images, and variations.