A powerful new photo search engine that works with the Flickr API is  released. Compfight.com is the Flickr search engine that provides lots of results based on a tag search, as well as  through titles and descriptions for the useful option of doing a deeper search. Compfight can be used for personal or commercial purposes, and perform various types of searches, making it a very flexible tool useful to a wide range of users. The basic search is a keyword search that will look through Flickr tags and return up to hundreds of photos tagged with your keyword. If your results are weak, you can change to an ‘all text’ search that will also hunt through photo titles and descriptions to find your keyword. you’ll be brought to the photo’s original page on Flickr by Clicking on any thumbnail result.

A ‘Blue Bar’ underlining a photo thumbnail on the results page indicates that Flickr is holding an original of that photo, and by hovering your cursor over a bar, you can even see the pixel dimensions of the original. Finding licensable photos, or Safe Search to keep the results free of possibly offensive content, you can turn on the Creative Commons feature

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 at 9:59 am | by Kur-nia-one |