Flickr: Search the Comments of an Entire PhotoStream

Contributed by MickeyMouse April 29, 2006  
Tagged: Internet

Searching a busy photostream for a certain comment or comments can be very difficult. By using google, you can search a whole photostream very quickly and efficently.

If you use Flickr frequently, you’ll realize that searching through comments would be an awesome feature to have. Since flickr is well spidered through google, this google search will allow you to do it.

I use this often to reference previous comments that people have left within my photostream.

Here’s the simpologist photostream that I frequently visit.

If I wanted to search his photostream for a comment containing the word “shot”, I would use this google search:

Google: site:flickr.com inurl:photos/simpologist shot

the site: command limits it to flickr
the inurl: command limits it to the simpologist photostream
and then shot is the term I am searching for.

Enjoy.