Searching for Images

Google.com Advanced Image Finder
locates images imbedded in web pages

AltaVista
Image search component of a major search engine. Locates images, audio and videos. Searching possible by name, color, and shape.

Ask Jeeves
Commercial query site with an image component.

Ditto.com
Largest (and oldest) searchable index of visual content on the internet via proprietary processes.

HotBot

Lycos Multimedia
select "pictures" or other media type

Yahoo Advanced Image Search

Corbis (Bill Gate's image collection)
World's Largest Collection of Digital images. For sale, but nice thumbnail index.

Image Finder (SunSITE, Berkeley)

WebSEEk (Columbia University)
a content-based image and video search catalog tool

WebShots
home photographs posted presumably for everyone to view. Subject index