Google Images Quietly Adds Creative Commons Filter
Jun 11, 2009 at 11:15am ET by Barry Schwartz
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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Hmm, Unless I’ve gone completely mad, I’m absolutely positive that I saw this about a month back, but didn’t really take note of the significance.
Anybody else? Or have I lost my mind…
Premium member since 01/2009
I had not noticed it but great find nonetheless. Now for an image search plugin that searches both flickr and google images from inside wordpress, saves the file locally, and provides photo credit via link (or other commons options).