Flickr has become a great resource for finding images on the web, sharing and tagging photos is one of the killer applications of web 2.0. Flickr can also be rather overwhelming when searching for that one right photo amidst some crap which doesn't appear to have any relevance to the tags you're searching on. This is one of the reasons I now prefer PixDaus.
There are two sites that effectively and visually blow your mind when searching:
FlickrCC and
TagGalaxy are two ways to graphically search flickr.
FlickrCC uses a keyword search to bring up a window of pictures tagged with that search tag. Clicking on each picture gets you the proper attribution link, editing link and different sizes to move directly into your presentations and websites. All of the images are copyright with Creative Commons licensing, which encourages sharing.
flickrCC search for "flowers" - check out the cupcakes!
Tag Galaxy lets you visually search Flickr. I love relationship clouds for drilling down or moving laterally (it's just cool playing at spinning/tilting the globe).
TagGalaxy search
The Discovery exercise requires you to write about your experience with both resources, exploring both sites by searching for the same keywords on each site. I searched for my stock term lighthouses initially but it returned too many photos to really compare the two sites.
Heceta Lighthouse with clouds and fog. Devil's Elbow State Park, Oregon.
Did you find similar or different results? Which method of browsing pictures worked better for you? Did the images you find match your expectations?
I then did a "Horsham" search on both, with some different results, flickrCC seemed to throw up more "irrelevant" hits, think I prefer Galaxy as it tells you how many hits/matches it found, but flickrCC's thumbnails look clearer. I belive both are a step up from searching flickr directly.
The 'other' Horsham in a snowy frost
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