Global Resources for Competitive Technical Intelligence Research

Semiconductor Product Images

If you have the appropriate technical skills, or access to a technology professional with the required skills, images can provide competitive data and evidence of technology use that may not be presented in text form. Image search engines have made it easier to search through and locate specific images of interest. Some of these are shown below.

Photos

http://www.icphotos.org/

http://semiconductormuseum.com/PhotoGallery/PhotoGallery_Index.htm

Internet Image Search Resources

http://images.google.com/

http://www.picsearch.com/

http://www.altavista.com/image/default

http://images.search.yahoo.com/

http://www.thrall.org/proimage.html

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/simple_image_search/app/

http://www.bing.com/images?FORM=ZZLH4

http://www.ask.com/?#subject:img|pg:1

http://www.ditto.com/

http://www.pixsy.com/

http://www.ixquick.com/

http://www.zuula.com/img_srch/image_index.html

http://www.ithaki.net/indexu.htm

Review of Image Search Engines

Reverse image search engine – Have or find an image but need more documentation of its identity and origin? Try this site. This plugin for Firefox adds a right-click menu item that allows you to search for an image to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. You must open this link from inside Firefox to allow installation of the plug-in.

(Site provided by IC Microanalysis LLC, an independent semiconductor patent and technology research firm)