Most search engines (eg, Google, Yahoo, etc) allow you to alter the number of search results that show up on each page, by going into Preferences and choosing a number. However, this does not apply to image searches. So Google gives you a stock 20 results per page, for instance, and that can't be changed. Bing, the new Microsoft engine, is more bizarre. It gives you every result on one screen, which you can continuously scroll down. The problem is, if there are millions of results, your computer is in for a very long download session. As an example, I searched for images related to "debt", and got more than 19-million results. There was no way to stop them all downloading except to quit the page. I don't think my broadband account would have stood that amount of downloading.
Fortunately, there is ONE search engine that allows you to alter the number of images displayed per page. It is called Imagery, and it is actually a front end that some enterprising person has constructed for the Google engine. Imagery allows you to choose to display 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100 images per page, and you can also choose other standard preferences such as file size, type, etc. It also gives good sized thumbnail views. Sadly for Internet Explorer users, it only works in Firefox - another reason to change browsers.
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