Yahoo's new Creative Commons Search
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Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 09:12 AM [GMT-6]

Yahoo! has rolled out a beta version of a search engine which indexes only content which is subject to a Creative Commons license.

This is potentially an invaluable tool for anyone who uses the internet to find content which will be included in or repurposed for commercial use. If you've ever "borrowed" an image from another website and felt guilty about possibly violating someone's copyright by using it in your own project (not that I would know about such things ;-), this is the first place you might want to turn to find material that is free from such restrictions, or which has usage restrictions clearly spelled out.

We're likely to see more and more of the Big Guys pile on this bandwagon. As Joi Ito puts it, "Hardware, software and services that support Creative Commons is key for creating the sharing economy. Creative Commons was designed to enable machine readable encoding and this is a great example of why."

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