Thursday, May 17, 2007
Dear Rebecca at SEOmoz: Don't forget the "little" guys
I was scrolling through my RSS feed and stumbled upon Rebecca's post comparing the top image search engines but I think she left a couple out. Flickr and Photobucket. Like a lot of my other searches these days, I find the best results coming from sites not named Google, Yahoo or MSN. Image searching is no difference.Flickr is my choice for image search for several reasons. Its quick, the images are fresher (almost like a blog search), an although there are not as many images as the major engines have in their image searches, the quality of the images is much higher. Another bonus is that I don't run across missing images or pages which happens fairly often with the other image search choices.
Photobucket is along the same lines except their interface is more traditional and not as convenient albeit they do have more images for a lot of younger generation searches i.e. Rebecca's American Idol example.
Rebecca used American Idol's Jordin Sparks as her image search example, now compare these results to the ones she posted:
Flickr results for Jordin Sparks
Photobucket results for Jordin Sparks
If someone wants to take my idea of creating an image search thats scours all the major image sites, we'd really have a quality image search, just give me some credit for the idea. ;)
Posted By Matt O'Hern at 12:20 AM
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