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 New Google Beta--Image Search
Author:Gary Price
Date:Tuesday, 26th Jun 2001 08:16
Views:3,548 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce
URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b10745

Hello from Washington D.C.

Google is now beta testing an "image search" capability via the Google
Advanced Search Page
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

or by using the syntax
filetype:

NOTE: This "syntax" search method appears not to be functioning properly as of the writing of this message.

Images are returned to the user in a thumbnail format.

According to the FAQ the database contains over 150 million images and will also work with all other Google command syntax.


More Details via FAQ:
http://www.google.com/help/faq_images.html


cheers,
gary



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Gary Price Research and Internet Consulting
Information Consultant, George Washington University
gprice@gwu.edu

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  New Google Beta--Image Search
Hello from Washington D.C. Google is now beta testing an "image search" capability via the Google Advanced Search Page http://www.google.com/advanced_search or by using the ...
Gary Price 26/06/01 08:16 10745
   Re: New Google Beta--Image Search
I think the syntax filetype: IS working, but probably only from the dedicated image-search front page at http://images.google.com and not ...
Lance Housley 27/06/01 13:28 10790

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