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We must first specify which browser is concerned. It makes sense to use the most popular in the world: Internet Explorer; and the most popular search engine: google.com.

When you look for something on the Net, search engines such as Google go and compare the terms you typed to what they have indexed.

So, were you to look for 60s / 70s French actress Catherine Deneuve (who will star as our running example), Google will go and retrieve pages concerning her.

Important: she may appear on those pages ...or she may not. She may just be discussed. Nonetheless the principle of retrieval is, she will be one of the determining elements of the page -and this is why this page will be flagged up by Google as being relevant to your “information need”.

Let us now discover the many

different ways in which your search query will appear via image searching.

Google Image Searching 1


• SPELING ...or even SPELLING

• Let us first address the issue of spelling, which may be an inhibiting factor for some people. After all, nobody on earth can be sure about every single word's, or every single name's spelling: there are millions of them.

• Well, fear no more as Google -like many other search engines- recognises the ever-present potential for typing mistakes. To solve this risk, Google offers approximate spelling tolerance.

• More to the point in our present query, try searching for:

• "catherine dneuve"

• "katherine deneuve"

• "catherine deneve"

• ...and see what happens.

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• In fact, see how far you can go and still find relevant results:

• "cthrin deneuv"?

• "ctrin denev"?

• "catherine 2 9"?


• (copyright Google, image used for educational purposes)


• TOOLS• • Now let's explore image searching proper. First go to "images", type “catherine deneuve”. What do you see on the page?

• Various alternative supporting media are suggested. You can go and browse webpages, videos, news, etc. -but we'll stick with images.

• Let's look at "search tools”. These are the filters that will refine your image searching.

• What are they?• “Size” - “Color” (sic) - “Type” - “Time” - and “More Tools” ("all results" or "show sizes") or in other words:

• -size levels• -shades of colour• -types• -time intervals• -usage rights• -show size or not• -safe search or not.• • Note also the panorama on top of the page. This is a recent addition offered by Google. It shows the various "themes" acting as a guiding directory for what are the most likely subjects of interest in the query. In this case, Deneuve's cinematographic career; her latest news; her sense of style; her most famous films...

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• Let's click on the first tool: “Size”. A drop-down menu appears, which details the various options available.

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• (copyright Google, image used

• for educational purposes)


• COLOURS

• The search engine looks for images in a certain main graphic harmony / coloration.

• Which filter do you think this photo came from?

(Walter Carone copyright)


• and this one?

• Go on now, play around with the colour filters since you want to.

• (Jacques Demy movie, copyright Agnes Varda)


• TRANSPARENT FILTER

• Now for the puzzling “Transparent” filter. What does this stand for?

• This is, in fact, a clever trick: what this filter does, it selects animated images in the GIF and PNG technical format.

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• So staying with our search topic ("Catherine Deneuve"), click on it and see what comes up on your screen.

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• MYSTERY IMAGE

• And now for a riddle: how does this image relate to Catherine Deneuve?

• (copyright unknown, image used for educational purposes)

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• Let us find out how this image was retrieved...

• Either Click on the image which ought to open a link, or copy and paste its address http://www.coastal.com/catherine-deneuve-301-grey-horn

(Control + C, then Control + V in the address bar at the top of your screen).

• It should take you this eyewear retailer: Coastal.com (please note: I don’t have any shares there!)

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http://www.coastal.com/catherine-deneuve-301-grey-horn

http://www.coastal.com/catherine-deneuve-301-grey-horn

Google Image Searching 11• The previous illustration was an example of what happens with "Type" filters.

• What do you think happened there? Have a guess...

• SPOILER BELOW:

• Remember how we explained at the start of the lesson that a search engine will go and recall webpages -or web elements such as images- through their association with the query terms entered in the search box. These can mean images appearing on webpages that are defined by your search term (or keyword).

• In this instance, the subject “Catherine Deneuve” does not appear herself -but still defines the page retrieved by Google. What happened was, she lent her name to these glasses' brand.


• Now click to see what appears when you select "Clip Art" under "Type".

• This is where you will discover images usually found in advertising, caricatures, posters, graphic work...

• I'll leave it to you to explore the “animated” filter

• -not least all of you sports fans: think of all the enjoyment you will get out of this!

• But first a question. Doesn't this “Animated” tool remind you of another filter we discovered earlier?

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• Answer on the next page.


• TYPE FILTER TEST

• That's right, the answer to previous question was: the “Transparent” colour filter.

• In the meantime, how do you

think I arrived at • this picture? (Clue: we are

examining “Type” filters.)

• (copyright Eketapeng, image used for educational purposes)

• (( source https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=catherine+deneuve&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=itp:lineart&sa=X&ei=NynlUvKFE5GrhQeKl4DoDw&ved=0CD4QpwUoBA&dpr=1&biw=1295&bih=631#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=1Y6YHVDWqFm0HM%253A%3B7CHTRl5kpZLFkM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fth01.deviantart.net%252Ffs71%252F150%252Fi%252F2012%252F140%252F8%252F7%252Fcatherine_deneuve___jeune_by_eketapeng-d50fo3i.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Feketapeng.deviantart.com%252Fart%252FCatherine-Deneuve-jeune-303061950%3B117%3B150 ))

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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=catherine+deneuve&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=itp:lineart&sa=X&ei=NynlUvKFE5GrhQeKl4DoDw&ved=0CD4QpwUoBA&dpr=1&biw=1295&bih=631


• Well done again, the drawing was found via the “Line drawing” type filter.

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• And now for “Date” filters.

• Date may be useful when researching a news item. With the “Date” filter, you can zero in on a precise newspaper headline (instead of trawling through hundreds of useless hits).

• You may also wish to look up the most recent postings about your subject of choice and specify the latest week or month. This filter ought to get rid of old results you've seen before and are of no currency.

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• Here's another practical example: think about looking to book a holiday.

• Here are two images of New Orleans...

• before and after the Katrina hurricane

• (please note that I avoided too upsetting images).

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• (Getty Images copyright, image used for educational purpose.)

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• USAGE RIGHTS

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• You may have noticed, during this course, the ever-present mentions of copyright under each of the pictures featured. Here comes the reason why.

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• “Usage rights” -the next image filter on the list- are useful legal notifications indicating whether the documents are under copyright, freely available for re-use or not, and so on.

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• Why this may be important.

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• The legal status of a downloadable document matters greatly should you want to make use of an image (or a text, for that matter) which you will have found on Google.

• You may want to feature this image in a business or club of yours, or post it on a simple blog. In both cases, the image's rights owner may decide to exert his lawful rights and have you pay royalties :-(( .

• Here is what may ensue: http://www.contentfac.com/copyright-infringement-penalties-are-scary/.

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• “Usage rights” are a great way to learn about copyright.

http://www.contentfac.com/copyright-infringement-penalties-are-scary/


• SIZE

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• Size can be useful to know if you look for an artwork reproduction worth featuring as your desktop background, or if you need to copy and insert a -legally available, naturally- image in one of your files.

• Here is what a Catherine Deneuve background could look like:

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• (photographer unknown)

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Google Image Searching 17• ADULT FILTER

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• Added to the various technical filters we have just examined, another important distinction needs to be addressed -and that's the issue of censorship.

• Some users may have concerns about unfiltered adult searches. People have the right not to want to be exposed to material that may shock them -especially when of a photographic nature.

• This is what the "safe search: filter explicit results" button, at the top right of the search screen, is about -see next page...

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• The problem with the adult filter is that, by restricting the number of results, you may overlook what you were looking for in the first place. What you were looking for may have been categorised by Google as not entirely safe ...in which case it will be missed altogether.

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• Should you want to allay this risk, go back to the moderation button and click "safe search". This will allow all sorts in, including pornographic images (apparently, the Internet has been known to feature rude pictures.)

• Reassuringly, Google has recently refined its filtering and made it more difficult for nude pictures to get picked up alongside safe ones. (You now need to spell out required terms such as “nude” in the query, I understand.)

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• ADULT FILTER IMAGES


• SEARCHING BY IMAGE (1)

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• To round up our course, let's get more interactive.

• Here is another facility offered by Google Image Search: the “likeness effect”.

• This is a clever trick. If you have an image and want to know where it comes from, it may be possible in some cases to find out its provenance.

• Consider for example the case of the photo of a villa available for renting, or some item of clothing which you would like to identify and track down. Or you may simply want to corroborate the identity of someone's picture.

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• Go to the image search box: https://images.google.com/.

• You can see a camera on the right.

• Click on it.

• The box opens to reveal two options.

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• If the image you're interested in is online, copy its address (into the box); If the image you're interested in is in your own computer files, upload it (into the box).

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• What doe “copy and paste” and “upload” mean, some may wonder? Let's move on to the next slide and all will be revealed.

https://images.google.com/


• HOW TO COPY AND PASTE / UPLOAD

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• "Paste image URL" :

• Go to the image's webpage which you have left open in another tab.

• Click at the end of the long “URL” address at the top: it gets shaded when it's selected.

• "Control" key + "C". It's copied.

• Now go back to your "Image Search" page.

• Click inside the box.

• Paste the online locating address into the box by pressing the "Control" key and "V".

• The address you copied is pasted.

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• Second way of doing it: upload the image straight from your own computer.

• Let's say you have an image in one of your personal folders.

• Click on the "Image Search" box.

• "Browse..." : locate the folder where the image is.

• Select the image.

• Click it.

• “Open”. The image is now available for Google “likeness effect” searching.


• SEARCHING BY IMAGE (2)

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• Now that you have either inserted the image's Internet address (its “Universal Resource Locator”) or uploaded your copy into the search engine, click.

• Hopefully, your image will get recognised after being compared to millions and millions of pictures online.

• Best case scenario: there is a match between your image and similar ones. You will then be shown a list of webpages featuring identical ones. Their location may shed light on their origin / nature / author and answer your questions -namely “What is it?” and “Where does it come from?”.

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• This is called “query-by-example”. This technique has been adapted in other contexts, for example with music with the Shazam application.

• Ain't it helpful?

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• This concludes our introductory course to Google Image Searching.

• Many thanks for your attention. You should now be able to handle these filters and get the best out of them in your own searches and according to your own interests.

• Don't feel overawed by unexplained terms, take control of the tools at your disposal.

• • Should you require

additional help, please find below some support links -or drop me an email.

• • Should you be interested

in further “information literacy” courses, stay tuned for more “Loig Y'a Un Truc” TM lessons. Contact email: [email protected]. Thank you.

• • • • Links for further

information / Credits • http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search• https://support.google.com/websearch/?hl=en#topic=3180360• http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/google-image-search-to-add-filters-for.html• • • Interested to know more

about image misattribution? Here is a funny story about the (alleged) “man with the longest beard in the world”: http://www.librarian.net/stax/4264/why-sourcing-photos-matters-how-misattribution-is-amplified-on-the-web/

• • All images featured during

the course used for educational purposes.

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mailto:[email protected]

http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

https://support.google.com/websearch/?hl=en

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/google-image-search-to-add-filters-for.html

http://www.librarian.net/stax/4264/why-sourcing-photos-matters-how-misattribution-is-amplified-on-the-web/