WebSEEk is an experimental content-based web image search engine covering over 650,000 images on the web at large. Developed at Columbia University, the system allows you to search for or browse through color photos, gray images, graphics, and videos on popular subjects. This system is an effective marriage of text and visual recognition technology operating on images that are gathered by automated agents.
Text is gathered both from the web address and parent document to give clues about visual content.
Subjects are grouped hierarchically. Each category is further broken down into subcategories. You may also search by color, which works superbly. Searching with WebSEEk You may search by subject or by using free text. Subjects must match terms selected by the developers.