Asset Allocation

Jan 13

Google Advanced Image Search

Add this to your bookmarks for increased image search parameters:

Find .png Images With Transparency

In addition to "filetype" filtered searches and googles advance image searches you can search for an image and filter for png images.

1. Input your search term into google search

2. Click on the image catagorical tab/panel

3. Click on "Tool" at the end of the category tray

4. In the expanded sub-menu, click on "color"

5. Choose transparent

You can also access this option from the advanced image search

Saving Google Advanced Image Filters

Using google advanced image search in this guide, set some parameters such as image size and then leave search term blank and initiate a search. The subsequent page will be a google search splash page and the URL can be used as a favorite to save your search parameters.

Here is a search for images Larger Than 2mb:

Search 2MB

Restrictive Search By File Type

You can use the filetype: operator in Google Search to limit results to a specific file type. For example, filetype:rtf galway will search for RTF files with the term "galway" in them.

File types indexable by Google

Google can index the content of most types of pages and files. The most common file types we index include:

Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)

Adobe PostScript (.ps)

Autodesk Design Web Format (.dwf)

Google Earth (.kml, .kmz)

GPS eXchange Format (.gpx)

Hancom Hanword (.hwp)

HTML (.htm, .html, other file extensions)

Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)

Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)

Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)

OpenOffice presentation (.odp)

OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods)

OpenOffice text (.odt)

Rich Text Format (.rtf)

Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)

TeX/LaTeX (.tex)

Text (.txt, .text, other file extensions), including source code in common programming languages:

Basic source code (.bas)

C/C++ source code (.c, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .h, .hpp)

C# source code (.cs)

Java source code (.java)

Perl source code (.pl)

Python source code (.py)

Wireless Markup Language (.wml, .wap)

XML (.xml)

Search assets from a specific site or group of sites

You can restrict searches to specific sites by adding the prefix "site:(short website URL)" such that "couch site:3dwarehouse.sketchup.com" returns searches of "couch" on 3dwarehouse.

You can also restrict searches to a group of sites by adding "OR" in between your site filtering such that "couches site:3dwarehouse.sketchup.com OR site:gumroad.com" will return a search for couches on 3dwarehouse and gumroad

Combining What We've Learned

Here is an example of stacking a search for "grey" color designated "marble" restricted to 3 websites with an image filetype ".jpeg" greater than "2mb" in size

Stacked Search