When blogging, it’s usually a good idea to include images in your posts. Not only is it attractive to readers, it is also useful, especially when you’re illustrating a point. People understand better when there are images that they actually see. Google Image Search has been an excellent source of images, in our experience.

And this doesn’t only go for blogging. Perhaps you’re creating a slideshow, or you’re designing a brochure or a presentation for school. Of course, you’d need to pay the copyright owners of images and photos before you can use them for commercial purposes. But I think it’s within fair use to include these images on your blog or other material if they’re for personal use.

Here’s another cool thing to do with Image Search. You can use this to automatically generate thumbnails of images hosted on one particular server or domain only, effectively using Image Search as your Image browser. How? Use the site: modifier.

site:(insert domain or URL here)

If you don’t include a keyword, Google will search through all the images on that domain.

For example, I want to search all images on this domain (googletutor.com), I go to http://images.google.com and key in site:googletutor.com. I get these results:

What’s great with this feature is that you can browse for images within one particular domain only, and even save the image thumbnails if you’re too busy (or lazy) to resize images yourself. Just drag the image of choice onto your desktop (or right click and select “Save Image As …”) and it will be saved as a file named images.jpeg, which you can then rename and use as desired.