An Alternative to Google Images?

Many of us use Google Images to find topic related pictures, graphics and photographs to use in our work. It’s a great tool, but because of the way it works the occasional inappropriate image can get through the filtering systems. To minimise this, always ensure you have the strict filtering option selected in Preferences (next to the search box).Picsearch is an image search engine that has built in family filtering. From the site: “Under no circumstances is it possible for children to bypass our family filters since they were planned for from the outset and integrated into Picsearch’s whole indexing system. Offensive content is easily eliminated by our specially designed filters before it can even enter our database. Unfortunately, no filtering process can be flawless. Therefore Picsearch offers an image removal service for removing single images. Should an offensive image be discovered, Picsearch can be contacted through offensive@picsearch.com.”

Since I’m writing about images, I have to mention Freerange Stock a site for free stock photographs. As usual with these sites, read the Terms of Use carefully. And if you’re a fan of Flickr can I recommend www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm