I love pictures of people and things. A glossy spread in Vanity Fair, a coffee table book on restoring city apartments, boxes of old photos in a junk shop - other places, other faces, other anything that I don't see on a regular basis really appeal to me.
So imagine how much I enjoyed Google Images, an entirely different and very easy way to look at photos of almost anything, using a simple search box to type in keywords. I found photos of my favourite hotel in Vancouver (The Sylvia), my favourite musician (Beck) my favourite cafe (Cafe Sabarsky in New York) and my favourite yoga position (shavasana). The range of photos available offers lots of choice, and I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of Canadian content - something I was originally skeptical about. I also like that each image lists a link to it's origin, often a website that is interesting in itself to browse.
Probably the only drawback to Google Images is that visuals of more obscure places and faces are not always available, and that a search will yield results that have no connection to what you are actually looking for. However, I've found this doesn't happen too often, and I'm usually pleased with the photos that are retrieved.
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