Thursday, April 4, 2013

A better Life Photo Archive search

Arjan den Boer has created a better tool to search Google’s Life Photo Archive: Better search for LIFE Photo Archive. I just tried it out:

A search for duke ellington : LPA: 34 results; Arjan’s search: 156 results.

A search for post office : LPA page: 38 results. Arjan’s search: 218 results.

A search for typewriter : LPA: 45 results; Arjan: 158 results.

Arjan’s search not only yields far more results; it presents those results in a legible uniform size, twenty to a page.

The Life Photo Archive is a wonderful place to get lost. It’s now easier than ever to get lost and stay there. Thanks for sharing your work, Arjan.

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March 12, 2014: As Arjan wrote in a comment, Google has a new way to search Life photos. Thanks for the memories, Arjan.

comments: 2

Arjan den Boer said...

You can now use Google Cultural Institute to search the LIFE photo collection:
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/life-photo-collection

I will cancel http://lifephotosearch.net/

Michael Leddy said...

Thanks, Arjan. And thanks for the memories.