Did you know that you can find photographs and drawings and other visual material with Google? You didn't? You're not alone.
Do you need a diagram of a heart? Go into Google and just enter Heart. But, before you click on Search, look above the Google search bar and click on "Images." Then click on "Google Search."
If you want to limit your search to JPG files, or to GIF files, or to PNG files, you can do that also. Just click on "Advanced Image Search" at the top of the main Google search page. Then, look down the Advanced page and you will see filetypes. You can then select the type of file you want to see and to download.
Similarly, while you're in the Advanced Search Page, you can go the "Domain" line and limit your search to .gov or .edu sites. Or even to .com sites.
Some (perhaps all) of the images are subject to copyright, so be careful.
In any event, I did a search on "heart" and then limited the search to ".gov" (without the quotes). In the result, the first two images were from the National Institutes of Health. When I clicked on the first image, I was led to an NIH page that showed several images from the Proceedings of the Second Visible Human Project. Clicking on the second, I was led to even more images from the Project.
And, if you want to see what Bourbon Street in New Orleans looks like during Mardi Gras, just use this search (with the quotation marks): "Bourbon Street" "Mardi Gras".
Happy searching.
Posted by ajlevy at February 13, 2004 4:22 PM
