![]() Flickr knew that was a picture of a towel, but it couldn’t recognize the “hand” part, since that word appeared nowhere on the image’s main page. ![]() Flickr just knew I wanted content about hands and towels.īut Google guessed that my phrasing mattered, and found more actual hand towels, like the beautiful red- and- yellow number in my post. Searching “hand towels” on Flickr returned a lot of hands near and around towels, plus the usual Second Life screenshots and NSFW art. For a recent post, I needed a hero shot of hand towels. ![]() So it can unearth some Flickr photos that even Flickr can’t. And unlike Flickr, Google Images uses the most sophisticated search algorithms on the planet. 4, Google Images has also let users filter photos by license. Sometimes we use our own original photos, sometimes Getty images that we pay for, sometimes the millions of Flickr photos licensed for free use through Creative Commons. At a for- profit editorial outlet like Lifehacker, when we need an image for our posts, we can’t just do a Google image search and slap up the first result.
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