Google Images Quietly Adds Creative Commons Filter
A couple weeks after Yahoo Images added the creative commons search filter, Google quietly added their own to Google Image Search. The option is not available in the user interface, but you can set the filter by adding a parameter to the URL. For example: Public Domain Images: Add &as_rights=cc_publicdomain to the URL Creative Commons […]
Barry Schwartz on June 11, 2009 at 11:15 am | Reading time: 1 minute
A couple weeks after Yahoo Images added the creative commons search filter, Google quietly added their own to Google Image Search.
The option is not available in the user interface, but you can set the filter by adding a parameter to the URL. For example:
- Public Domain Images: Add &as_rights=cc_publicdomain to the URL
- Creative Commons Attribution Images: Add &as_rights=cc_attribute to the URL
- Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Images: Add &as_rights=cc_sharealike to the URL
Google Operating System created a special search box with radio buttons that allows you to search for these types of creative commons filters without adding the parameter to the URL.
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.