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On the right side of the page is a list of suggestions for narrowing your
search. Try these to see if you can get a manageable list of results. You may
ind that the related searches aren't particularly useful, and you probably
don't want to expand your search, but the suggestions can come in handy.
No RSS feeds are available, so you need to use a page monitor.
Yahoo images
Yahoo Images (images.search.yahoo.com) also ofers an Advanced Search
page, which you can view at images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/
advanced?ei=UTF-8. Note that you can limit your searches to image size
and color, but not iletype. In addition, while the color options are more
limited (black and white, or color), the image size options are more exten-
sive (a wallpaper option has been added).
Yahoo Images also ofers the ability in the advanced search to narrow
searches by the domain in which the images appear. You can also do this
in Google Images (just add the site syntax to your search), but unless you're
doing a medical search (narrowing your results to .edu) or perhaps an archi-
val search (narrowing your results to .gov or a country code like .uk or .ca),
I wouldn't limit my search to a particular domain. Again, no RSS feeds, so
stick with a page monitor.
avoiding the naughty stuff
One thing that always comes up when you're running multimedia searches
is the possibility of accidentally running into Naughty Stuf. You know—
pictures and video that have less than nothing to do with your searches.
If your searches are narrow enough, you should be able to avoid naughty pic-
tures and content. However, don't count on that. Instead, use the advanced
searches and set the ilter to remove adult content from your search results.
Filters like this aren't perfect, but between that and very speciic searches
you should avoid content that you don't prefer to see.
But what if the unthinkable happens and you end up getting some stuf
in your search results that makes you go ick? Report it; look for a link on
the search results page. Some resources we're mentioning in this chapter
(like Flickr) don't want to have any adult content. And other resources,
like Google Image Search, will want to know if a iltered search is letting
through inappropriate materials.
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