Behold | Search High Quality Flickr Images

Need good images for your presentations? Finding it difficult to get hold of them? Flickr is the resource that I'll always try first, but it can be a real pain wandering through literally thousands of pictures to find the one that you want. Behold is perhaps a rather better way to find what you want. You can limit your search to Creative Commons (modify/commercial use) using the basic interface. When you've got a set of results you can then further refine that further. Start with a search for London and refine to those images that look like 'tower' for example.

They say of themselves:

Behold^TM is a search engine for high-quality Flickr images. It aims to answer your queries based on what is inside the images -- at the pixel level. It offers a completely new way to search for images, using techniques of computer vision. It is different to standard image search engines, such as Flickr or Google, because those search through images using only image tags and filenames.

Behold looks for high quality images, so you don't have to sift through hundreds of poorly taken pictures to find a good one. Behold uses both aesthetic and technical quality indicators to find some of the best images available online.

Thanks to AltSearchEngines for the headsup on this one.

Comments

[Alice Tyrell]

I normally use http://compfight.com/, but Behold looks like it might be worth a trial. Cheers!