"Andrew Heenan" <andrew3@heenan.net> wrote:

>
>"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote...
>> I'm looking for GIF files showing the cartoon characters Tom and
>> Jerry. Actually I want *animated* GIFs, but so far I haven't even
>> found an efficient way of googling for *all* such GIFs.
>
>Have you tried image searches?
>
>try [Tom & Jerry]
>[Hanna Barbera]
>[Tom cartoon cat]
>[Jerry cartoon mouse]
>[animated tom jerry]
>
>Pobably best to try with and without [gif] - in my experience, adding
>filetype does little to improve searches, and you may miss some, but if you
>tighten up your subject search, you'll soon sort the types. [animated] does
> - but it will miss some too, so do with and without.
>
>and combinations thereof; don't even think about giving up until you've
>tries at least 50 combinations - they are out there.
>
>I know - because I saw some when I was looking for T&J stills a couple of
>years ago.

Thanks Andrew. Yes, I started with Google Images, and scanned a few
hundred 'hits'. But after my lack of success I later tried [mouse gif]
and that gave me one possible
http://frecklescassie.files.wordpres...7/02/mouse.gif
which I've forwarded to the original enquirer.

For future reference, I'm keen to understand why that filetype format
doesn't give the results I'd expect? What is it *supposed* to find?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK