Tech Marshal

Google, just days ago (Dec 6, 2012) rolled out a new YouTube interface yet again. Although this layout is cleaner than the previous one, however some important filters like view count, upload date, relevance and average rating have been dropped.

'View count', especially is one of the filters many would use when watching the most popular videos on a particular topic. If this latest change didn't really sit well with you, here are two ways you can still add the missing filters and sort search results by views, average ratings etc.



Method 1:

Add the following to the end of the URL in the address bar after you have for a topic:

To Search by Relevance (Default)

&search_sort=relevance

To Search by Average Rating

&search_sort=video_avg_rating

To Search by View Count

&search_sort=video_view_count

To Search by Upload Date

&search_sort=video_date_uploaded

Method 2: (For Chrome Browser and Firefox):

Simply Install the "Video Sorter for YouTube" extension on your Chrome Browser. The extension adds it's own filters right above the search results.

While Firefox users can get the "YouTube Legacy Sort Options" script to get the previous filter options back.

Sometimes, for finding the desired images we need to rely on a different source. We need the search features that Google, Yahoo or Bing does not have. At least Yet.

Here are a couple of search engines that have a unique way of searching for images:

Pixolu - Pixolu helps you find images by their similarity to each other. Enter some keywords and Pixolu will search the image index of flickr and yahoo. Initially 200 images will be displayed. Select a few images that are similar to your desired results and Drag them to the upper right corner of the interface. Pixolu will refine the results and retrieve images similar to your selection.



Forisearch – Use your native language to search images from foreign language websites. Forisearch uses the image index of Google, Yahoo and Bing for its search results. It also uses YouTube for foreign language video results.



Ginipic - Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously right from you desktop.



Everystockphoto - A search engine for free photos that come from many sources and are license-specific. View a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free and allows users to rate, tag, collect and comment on the photos.



Imagery - Imagery, probably has one of the best search interface. Enter a search term and it will open up the results in a new tab with 60 images loaded at a time. The tabbed interface lets you easily switch between your previous and new search results. Simply Click an image to load it in full size at the bottom of the page. You can change the preferences to select image format, Sort images by size, color and also choose the Safe Search option.



Xcavator.net - A stock photo search portal for the creative community. It lets you browse visually through millions of stock images, vector illustrations and flash files from the leading providers all in one place. Get more relevant search results, faster than at other sites. Give it a try.



FreeFoto – FreeFoto has the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet. There are over 130000 images with 181 sections organized into 3623 categories. Use these images for online and offline use under the usage guidelines.



Nachofoto: Find the most recent and relevant images with nachofoto. It is a Semantic Time-based Vertical Image Search Engine that delivers Fresh and Relevant image results for High Volume and Trending queries.



Incogna - Incogna process the shape in every image and uses this to build a large scale searchable visual index. Incogna's image search technology lets you explore visual data in a whole new way.



Facesaerch - Is an image search engine for faces. It uses the Google API for results.



Multicolr Search Lab - Select up to 10 colors and it will show the most interesting images containing those colors. Multicolr Search Lab extracted the colors from 10 million of the most interesting Creative Commons images on Flickr.



Visual Search Lab – Combine tags with visual search for never-before-seen combination of images from a database of nearly 3 million stock photos from Alamy.



PicFog - Using twitter and the connecting image upload services, PicFog shows pictures from twitter as they're posted, in real time.