07 Sep 2007 @ 7:01 AM 
 

Finding Images for your Blog

 

Pictures make blogs more fun to read. Sometimes when I write an entry I want a pic but I don’t have anything of my own so I start Google searching for an image I can use (and attribute to its source, of course). We can talk about the propriety of using other’s images some other time. Today I just wanted to have some fun with image searching. You just never know what you’re going to get. So some sample blog headlines and images to go along with them….. I think these search results say a lot about how search engines work and about how important image tags are.

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Virus indicated in Bee Decline : Apparenly bad movies, not a virus or cell phones, are causing declines in bee populations

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Depression Leads to Worst Health : This band is responsible for all your health problems. Can their music be that bad?

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LaCrosse Player Seeks 30 million in settlement : Maybe it’s not money the Duke player is seeking but a campaign to fill a viking settlement with 30 million people. Those would be some crowded long houses.

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Bush and Putin Seek to Engage Asia : I just don’t have any idea how this image is even closely related to the search terms “engage asia” but it would be funny to put Bush and Putin in this pic.

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Rock Report: Not only the good die young: The study itself is quite the joke without a funny image to go along with it.

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Black Comedian Cut Short for Using N-Word: a lesson for Michael Richards. When you search “n-word” you now get his pic. This is how internet infamy gets started, folks. Be careful.

What funny key-word searches can you find?

Tags Categories: Google, blog, blogging Posted By: admin
Last Edit: 07 Sep 2007 @ 07 05 AM

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  1. Troy McLuhan says:

    I usually get stock images by searching Flickr for those with a Creative Commons Attribution-Only license. There are over five million images with that license on Flickr. And of course I give attribution (credit) to the creator. Here’s a link to the search:

    http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/

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