How can I find as many occurences of an image as possible on the
internet?  I have used the google image search and it returned 2
results.  I know there
are 100's of occurences and only 2 came back.  Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by mwalcoff-ga on 10 Oct 2002 16:20 PDT

What are you trying to find?

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Request for Question Clarification by haversian-ga on 10 Oct 2002 16:44 PDT

What image?  Could you give a URL?

How are you determining 'occurences'?  Are you looking for the same
picture, or the same filename, or both?  Finding an exact duplicate
should be reliable, but even after minor alterations, such as
converting from a .gif to a .jpg, it can be very difficult to automate
recognizing the images as being the same.

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Clarification of Question by grego-ga on 11 Oct 2002 05:39 PDT

I am looking for the image file "collage_deluxeformslogo.gif" on as
many sites as I can.  I am doing a research project for my boss to try
to determine how many associations Deluxe Business Checks & Solutions
has with other companies and they use this image on the connecting
page between the two sites.  An example is at
http://www.parishdatainc.com/links.htm  Thank you.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for or not, so will post as a
comment.  Let me know if it answers your question - if so, I'll post
as an answer; if not, well back to the drawing board!

As far as Google goes, I did a search for images of a bullfrog with
the "Advanced Search" tool, using "bullfrog .jpg image" as search
terms, selecting "all words," and got 312 returns. 
://www.google.com/search?as_q=bullfrog+.jpg+image&num=50&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images

Then I tried the image search over on Alta Vista, using just
"bullfrog" and got 991 returns.
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/mm_imageresults?q=bullfrog&pg=q&stype=simage&imgset=2&avkw=qtrp

I would suggest trying Google, Alta Vista Image search, and perhaps
Mamma.com using some variety of similar search strategy.  That is,
whatever image you're looking for, try it alone, try it with various
image extensions such as ".bmp," "gif," ."jpg," etc. and also with and
without the word, "image."

Best of luck - those images are out there, don't give up.

Byrd

Oooops.  Gee, I forgot to add: And then I did a search with the Google
Image search, also using just the term "bullfrog" and got 4,260
returns (in .2 seconds no less).
http://images.google.com/images?q=bullfrog&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

Ahem.  So - as stated above, it's a little difficult to be more
specific without knowing exactly what you're looking for but perhaps
you could try again with a little different strategy, knowing the
images are definitely there.

I'd like to add to byrd-ga's comment (with your clarification in
mind). In a brief search (using deluxe checks .gif as my search term)
in Google Images, I got numerous variations of your original logo, all
of which are being used by different web sites to link to check
ordering. As you can see if you go to
http://images.google.com/images?q=Deluxe+checks+.gif&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&start=60&sa=N,
the job your boss gave you is extremely complicated by this behavior
on the part of webmasters across the 'net who need to fit your button
into their space limitations. It looks as though you may have to take
the rather tedious approach of verifying that the button variations
used actually applies to your company. Still, we wish you luck.
-- wherethereswill

I did several searches with variations on your image
title,(deluxeformslogo, deluxe forms, deluxe forms image), as well as
the exact title, and also came up with two exact matches.  As
wheretheresawill stated, your job has been complicated by the
possibility of webmasters renaming or otherwise altering the original
image.  But you can certainly tell your boss that the image in its
original form and posted by its original name is found on only two
sites.

However, doing a normal search using your business name, i.e. "Deluxe
Business Checks and Solutions," returned quite a few sites that had
mention of and/or a link to your company, including:
http://www.microsoftchecks.com/
http://firstvirginia.com/online/checksonline.html
http://www.farmworks.com/news/newsletters/april02/specialbuschecks.html
http://www.chicagocommunitybank.com/cksonline.htm
http://www.northcommunitybank.com/cksonline.htm
http://www.archerbank.com/cksonline.htm
and even a flyer from:
http://www.vulcanlogic.com/resources/vllit/VLBDXR1.pdf

So perhaps if you're just trying to see how many companies are
providing a link to your business, that might be an acceptable
strategy for searching.

Again, good luck.