Chapter 8: Researching Photographs with Google

In the chapter:

Introducing Google Images
Limiting image search results using your criteria
Incorporating pictures into your research
Organizing pictures with Picasa

Using Google Images to find written information

If you don’t think that using images in your research can be useful when you present results, would you believe that Google Images can help you find written content, too? That’s right. If you use it right, Google Images can help you find Web pages with text-based content that you want.

Under specific circumstances, outlined in the following list, you may tap into a goldmine of written information when you use this wonderful tool:

If the page doesn’t contain a lot of text, the odds of getting enough links to increase PageRank standings aren’t good.
If the creator of the Web page didn’t bother with meta tags or a meta description—HTML tags that are not visible on a Web page, but describe the page to search engines—the page may be pretty far down the return results in any garden-variety Google Web search.

If your search terms are found on the page, and the page contains an image, Google Images might return the page in a far higher position than a Web search.

For more information about using Google Images as a research tool, please see Chapter 8...

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