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.

After reading some notes on 'advanced Google searches', I tried
filetype:gif jerry
filetype:gif tom
etc
but I was surprised to find these produced very few hits. Even
filetype:gif cartoon
gave only 5 hits!

And some of the hits I'd found by standard arbitrary searches were not
found by filetype:gif. For example, this one
http://www.drybonesproject.com/blog/TomAndJerry.gif
is not found by
filetype:gif tomandjerry

Why not? Am I not using this correctly?

More important, how would I best construct an efficient search please?

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"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.
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"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?

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:

> --
> Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Wow, another neighbour! I am amazed at how many people that use this NG
live just down the road from me!

Jez.

"Jez" <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote in message
news:5npatvFja1cbU1@mid.individual.net...
>
>
> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>
>> --
>> Terry, East Grinstead, UK
>
> Wow, another neighbour! I am amazed at how many people that use this NG
> live just down the road from me!
>
> Jez.

Funny, that a lot of them seem don't
seem to live there long though.
I wonder why?

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:03:52 +0100, Jez <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote:

>> Terry, East Grinstead, UK
>
>Wow, another neighbour! I am amazed at how many people that use this NG
>live just down the road from me!

Yep, for me too. Well, was <G>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:23:32 +0100, "T.J." <no1@home.invalid> wrote:

>
>"Jez" <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote in message
>news:5npatvFja1cbU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>>
>> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>
>>> --
>>> Terry, East Grinstead, UK
>>
>> Wow, another neighbour! I am amazed at how many people that use this NG
>> live just down the road from me!
>>
>> Jez.
>
>Funny, that a lot of them seem don't
>seem to live there long though.
>I wonder why?
>

I'm there too.

BB
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Big Bill wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:23:32 +0100, "T.J." <no1@home.invalid> wrote:
>
>> "Jez" <j.ez@virgin.net> wrote in message
>> news:5npatvFja1cbU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Terry, East Grinstead, UK
>>> Wow, another neighbour! I am amazed at how many people that use this NG
>>> live just down the road from me!
>>>
>>> Jez.
>> Funny, that a lot of them seem don't
>> seem to live there long though.
>> I wonder why?
>>
>
> I'm there too.
>
> BB

And James Helliwell lives close too