Thousands of people use Google image search daily and Google has launched a new feature that makes those searches far more efficient.  They have discovered a way to determine the type of image and you can now search by news content, faces, clip art, line drawings, and photo content.  It is also possible to search images by size.  This is a great feature when searching for extra large images for the Web.  This is a very powerful addition to their image search that makes finding specific images much easier.  The filters can be accessed from the blue bar above the results as seen below.

Using the advanced image search, even more filters are opened up.  The options for type and size are available as well as filetype and color as seen below.

Prior to these updates, Google image search was kind of a mess of various images that might be related to the search, but simply aren’t what you’re looking for.  I’ve done quite a bit of testing on the new filters and I love them.  I was able to easily find cartoon drawings and charts with almost no photos or unwanted images presented.  Overall, it’s a really great update.