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OAIster.org
“ a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access,
academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable
by anyone.”
Ditto.com
Ditto is US-based and has been around for a few years, formerly under the
name Arriba. Their index is created through a mix of automatic and human
editing.
Cobion visoo
Visoo is owned by a German company Cobion, who produce similar search products
for the German language audience.
Picsearch
Picsearch is a search engine for pictures. Picsearch is owned by a Swedish
company. It prides itself on its user friendliness and family friendliness
- adult material is automatically excluded.
[In a recent comparison of Ditto, Visoo and Picsearch by TASI * the latter
was the clear favorite.]
Search 22 Picture and Image Search Engines
This site gathers links to twenty-two image search engines (including
Dogpile, Corbis, several clipart services and a collection of photos
from Thailand).
However, its first five engines are arguable the best places to search
for general Web images: picsearch, Altavista, Ditto, Google and AllTheWeb.
Although
Search 22 does not offer the sophistication available when these are
searched directly, it does enable the user to make a very quick check
across a number
of different services - useful in ascertaining which engines are worth
searching in a more in-depth fashion.
* TASI, The Technical Advisory Service for Images is a British service that
provides advice and guidance to the Higher Education community on creating,
delivering, using and manazing digital images.
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