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You can use the Advanced Search page to search for multiple tags, or for
keywords in the tag and in the picture description. However, most of the
time I ind that searching tags works ine.
You might think that, as an information trapper, you won't ind anything
really useful on a photo site like Flickr—you may be thinking it's only about
birthday parties, bunnies, lowers, and such. But do some experimenting
with your searches; I think you'll be surprised. While most of what's on
Flickr is indeed photographs, other graphics are included too.
For example, if you enter a search for Google , which you might think is a
weird search for a photo site, look at the kind of results you get ( Figure 9.3 ).
Figure 9.3
getting google-tagged 
pictures at flickr.
You get pictures of Googlers and Google-related activities, but you also get
screenshots of Google resources, explanatory graphics, and even concep-
tions of services being ofered by Google. And while many of these might
be posted on blogs and elsewhere on the Web, they would be extremely dif-
icult to ind—what keywords would you use? Flickr's a nice shortcut.
When choosing tags for searching Flickr, again go for common words. As
you can see, Google and Yahoo work well. Try turning phrases into single
tags like I suggested doing with Del. Remember the searches we did with
Del— googleapi and weightloss ? Try those here. Notice that weightloss
works, while API doesn't. Experiment, experiment, experiment!
 
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