Google Image Search Colors Option

April 8 2009, 7:09am

We all love Google Image Search. Even those of us who have bad-mouthed Google for so many of their evils can not live without their search services, myself included. Here is a run of the mill result page, but do you notice anything out of the ordinary?

In with the new

Last night while I was helping Sarah find some inspiration to practice her drawing I noticed a feature on Google Image search that I had not only never seen before, but did not see on Sarah's computer either.

"Lucky me", I thought to myself.

"Well, what's the feature?", You ask?

"Read the title", I reply.

Yes, the colors option I used to enjoy so much at iStockPhoto is now available (at least for now) to me on Google Image Search (albeit it's presented in typical less-is-less Google fashion, but hey... it's better than nothing).

You can do it!

If you cannot see the color selector then it appears as though all you need to do to narrow down your image search by color is add the following variable in the URL:

imgcolor=[color name]

You can see the effect in this predefined query for red colored scenic byways if you like.