Images & Sounds

• AlltheWeb
• AltaVista
• Blinkx
• Google
• Lycos
• picsearch
• Yahoo

Video Only

• Truveo
• VideoSurf

AlltheWeb Pictures Search can be limited by:

• file format: jpeg, gif, bmp
• image type: color, grayscale, line art
• background: transparent, non-transparent

AlltheWeb Video Search can be limited by:

• formats: AVI, AVI/DivX, MPEG, Real, QuickTime
• streams or downloads

AltaVista Image Search can be limited to:

• photos, graphics, buttons/banners
• color or black & white
• sources: The Web, news, movies, autos
• sizes: small, medium, large, and wallpaper sizes (e.g., 640x480, 1024x768, etc.)

AltaVista MP3/Audio Search can be limited to:

• MP3, WAV, Windows Media, Real, AIFF, Other
• duration: less than or more than 1 minute

AltaVista Video Search can be limited to:

• MPEG, Avi, Quicktime, Windows Media, Real, Flash, Other
• duration: less than or more than 1 minute

Blinkx Advanced Search can be limited to:

• all media, video only, or audio only
• all videos, only direct play videos, or only full direct play

Browse Blinkx by:

• Category - entertainment, fashion, health & fitness, holiday, home & living, kids, sports, travel, video games, cars, food, money, news, technology, viral, for teen, tv shows, BBTV
• Channel - automotive, business, cartoon, comedy, culture, education, entertainment, fashion, fitness, food, gaming, health, home, instructional, money, movies, music, nature, news, politics, scitech, sports, travel, tv, viral, weather

Google Image Search can be limited by:

• content type: news content, faces, photo content, clip art, line drawings
• size
• filetypes: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
• coloration: black & white, grayscale, full color

Google Video Search can be limited by:

• language
• duration: short (<4 minutes), medium (4-20 minutes), long (>20 minutes)
• date: from today, from the past week, from the past month
• domain (include/exclude)
• subtitles (only close captioned videos)
• playable on Google Video
• file types: ASF, AVI, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPG, WMV

Picasa Web Albums - explore public photos

Lycos Image Search

Lycos Video Search

picsearch - advanced search can be limited to:

• images or animations
• color or black & white
• shape: portrait, landscape, or square
• size:
  • wallpaper
  • very small (1-50 pixels)
  • small to medium (50-400 pixels)
  • medium to large (200-800 pixels)
  • medium to very large (200 pixels or more)
  • large to very large (400 pixels or more)
  • very large (800 pixels or more)

Truveo Video Search

• "The simplest search queries contain one or more keywords separated by spaces. In response to these queries, the Truveo video search service will return all video records that match every word in the query. Note that search queries are not case-sensitive, and characters in your query other than common letters and numbers or special operators, as described below, will be ignored. Also note that the Truveo video search service will not return any results for queries that contain only a single letter or number.
• To find a video record that contains an exact phrase, simply surround the search query containing the phrase with double quotes. Note that, for exact phrase searches, any words, letters or numbers contained within the double quotes will never be ignored.
• The OR operator can be included between any two terms in your query to ensure that either term is included in the search results. Note that 'OR' must be capitalized."

Categories & Channels

• News
• Sports
• Music
• Movies
• TV Shows
• Channels

VideoSurf displays the results of each clip with still images on a timeline to jump to a particular point in the video

Refine the results to:

• Content Type - slideshows, web series, full episodes, full movies, other/clips
• Categories - news, funny, sports, music, tv, entertainment, travel, movies, how to, vlogs, lifestyle, health, animals, arts & animation
• Video Sources
• Show only faces
• Added - all time, this week, or today

Sort the results by:

• relevance
• popularity
• freshness
• duration (longest or shortest first)

Browse to "Discover Videos by Character" - everyone, athletes, celebrities, comedians, musicians, newsmakers

Yahoo Image Search can be limited by:

• size (wallpaper, large, medium, small)
• coloration (color or black & white)
• domain (.com, .edu, .gov, .org, other)

Yahoo Video Search can be limited by:

• format (AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Windows Media, Real, Flash)
• duration (short < 1 minute, medium 1-4 minutes, long > 4 minutes)
• site/domain (.com, .edu, .gov, .org, other)

Yahoo Audio Search - preferences can be set to restrict to a specific source