Searching for images on the internet
To search for image files, you can click the Images link located near the search box on all of the major search engines and then type in your search terms. Doing this restricts your search results to show only image files (file types such as JPEG and GIF, which include photos, diagrams, drawings, stars, lines — basically any static graphic on a web page).Besides the entertainment value of seeing tons of pictures on any subject, image searches also give you an easy way to make sure that the images on your website have been indexed by the search engine.
For example, if you have a photo of a ten-gallon jar of peanut butter on your website, you can search for it by clicking Images and then typing descriptive text about your image, like peanut butter jar. If your webmaster gave the image an ALT attribute (text that displays in place of an image if it cannot display for some reason) like “Ten-gallon peanut butter jar,” you can use the ALT attribute as your search query. If the search engine spidered your website and found the image, it also should have indexed the ALT attribute.
To really target your search, you can first tell the search engine to look only within your website: [site:www.yourdomain.com “Ten-gallon peanut butter jar”]. Using quotation marks (" ") around the query tells the search engine to return only pages with that exact text on them.
Searching for videos
Videos are being used more and more inside websites. Sites like YouTube store millions of videos that can be watched by anyone, anywhere, on nearly any subject. You can search within these sites for videos, but you can also do a broader video search using a vertical search engine.From the Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft Live Search page, click the Videos link near the search box and then type in your search terms. Your results only include video files that have been indexed by that search engine and that match your search terms.