Things you can't google 'cause they are are too difficult to describe

[Peace Alliance]

I have this problem a lot. When I go to google something I can't describe it properly to get the results I want. Some things take more then 1 line to describe. No matter how much I try I can't get the right combination of keywords to find what I'm looking for.

This thread is going to be examples of that. I'm sure you guys have the same problem too. We can post them here, and maybe collectively we can figure out better keywords for each others searches.


I'm googling:

dust flecks flow in light, glow

Currently I'm having a heck of a time trying to find a photo of the way dust glows in light sometimes. Y'know when you're in an old barn with natural light coming in and there are large flecks of dust floating in the air that prominently glow in the light? That's what I want photo's of. I'm trying to make "nostalgic" looking photographs for my summer camp website.

[Muse]

I have problems like this too. Especially if my teacher describes something, I want to look it up, but don't know what it's called.
Also, if its a commonplace word, then any website with that word is shown.

[Peace Alliance]

ya, like if you add the word "shine" into any google image search, you get buttlols of cleaning products.

[Muse]

Exactly!
Hmm. Yours is a hard one.
I think you definitely need dust, flecks, and light. Instead of flow, try float. Instead of glow, maybe glisten?

[Ashyra Nightwing]

there is a word for these things:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=507&q=dust+motes&gbv=2&oq=dust+motes&aq=f&aqi=g1g-S3g-mS4&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=724l2121l0l2419l10l7l0l0l0l0l380l1114l3.2.1.1l7l0

[Shadow]

"dust mote"

[Muse]

Oh yeah. Now I remember that.

[Shadow]

I posted before I noticed ashy's, I promise, but we are clearly pretty great either way.

[Peace Alliance]

there is a word for these things:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=507&q=dust+motes&gbv=2&oq=dust+motes&aq=f&aqi=g1g-S3g-mS4&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=724l2121l0l2419l10l7l0l0l0l0l380l1114l3.2.1.1l7l0

SEE! All I needed to know was the right darn word for it! haha, frig. That's always the case! It just means I need a team of people helping me with my searches.

[Gen. Volkov]

Or a thesaurus, or in your case a working knowledge of the English language. LOL.

[Peace Alliance]

Because everyone should already know what a dust mote is?

[Shadow]

pretty sure I first came across that term in a redwall book, so you have no excuse.

[Peace Alliance]

Never read the books :D

[Raggon]

Get out!!!

[Holby]

Or a thesaurus, or in your case a working knowledge of the English language. LOL.

I see this thread as the modern day version of those old people who ring up radio stations to ask when daylight saving starts.