Behold is a visual image search engine for high quality creative commons images.

When learners create multimedia projects as part of their coursework, Learning Providers require them to use either Creative Commons or Public Domain images if they don't create their own images. This reinforces the point that they cannot just grab and re-use images without regard for Copyright.

Behold could help learners (and their practitioners) find quality images that meet the Creative Commons requirement.

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Introducing Google Images with sorting: now when you search for an image, you'll not only see images related to your search, you can also sort the results by subject.

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Google Image Swirl is an image search tool intended to help users visually refine and alter their searches for images.

To use Image Swirl...

• enter search term;the results of the search will be displayed in a grid similar to that with which users are probably familiar.

• Click any image in the grid and a 'swirl' of more, related, images will appear

• Click an image in the swirl and another swirl of images will appear etc., until a single image is located.

Visit http://image-swirl.googlelabs....
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iFaceSearch is a very simple to use website which acts as a search engine for face images.

On the iFaceSearch homepage users will...

• find a text bar;
• enter the name;and
• Click on the "Let's Search" button...

... if located, face images are pulled from all over the web.

A percentage of the search results will be irrelevant as there is more than one person with a given name.

Note: iFaceSearch can display the data in four views:

• Image Flow,
  
• Classic,
  
• HD, or
  
• Low-res.
  

Users can se...

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TinEye is a reverse image search engine.

Users can upload an image to TinEye to...

• find out where it came from;
• how it is being used;
• if modified versions of the image exist; or
  
• find higher resolution versions

TinEye claims to be the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks; it is free to use for non-commercial searching.

Visit http://www.tineye.com/ to try it out.

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Imagelogr is a search engine for images.

The objectives of Imagelogr are to...

• index every image currently available for free on the Internet; and
  
• make them instantly accessible to anybody;
• offer image manipulation capabilities so users can modify the selected picture in a way that they see fit, including...
  • the ability to rotate images on the fly;
  • zoom in and out without having to re-size the entire website in order to achieve the desire effect;
• enable users to download and save the s...

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There are many search engines on the web that focus on accuracy and relevancy even though that sometimes means displaying inappropriate and explicit content.

I'mHalal is a search engine design for the Muslim community that filters out all the ‘explicit’ content when displaying the search results.

This allows users, and they don't have to be Muslim, to use the internet in a clean and safe environment.

I'mHalal is still in relatively early stages it...

• is available in the followin...

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Are you and/or your learners interested in knowing what foreign language websites have to offer?

Then ForiSearch should be checked out.

This simple online foreign image or video search tool lets users enter a search term, in their native language, and then find images and videos from a different selected language.

ForiSearch is very easy to use...

• enter search keywords
• choose whether to look for images or videos
• choose a language to get back search results

ForiSearch uses Google’s...
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