Monday, May 4, 2015

Filtering Image Searches with Google and Safe Search



Welcome back to another installment of Google search tips! As we've mentioned before, always make sure that if you're using Google.com (and not our stmm.me account) to search for images, turn on Safe Search - That can be found on the Images search page:



Learn more about Safe Search here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/510?hl=en

After you've conducted an image search, it's time to filter your results so that you can get closest to the picture you've imagined.

Here's an example: I searched for the Durham Bulls in Images.

I want more action shots, so an easy way to do this is use the "color" search tool. I choose to filter by green because most action shots will include the field. My new results are below:
Or, I can filter by "type" and choose from the options there. This is the result for "line drawings."
Happy Searching!