Comments on: Yahoo Search for Creative Commons Content

Yahoo Search for Creative Commons Content

o2b — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:00:59 -0800

It even allows you to specify the type of license you're interested in (derivitive works, commercial use). Lawrence Lessig obviously has something to say about it. If nothing else, it will increase awareness of the cause.

By: o2b

o2b — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:02:38 -0800

Please forgive me for cribbing so blatantly from SlashDot. I think it's a cool cool thing.

By: BigPicnic

BigPicnic — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:26:31 -0800

You can also add a Creative commons search to the little search box of Mozilla.

By: grateful

grateful — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:45:45 -0800

Also via.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:46:29 -0800

Actually bigpicnic, it's a default option in all copies of firefox.

By: BigPicnic

BigPicnic — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:53:09 -0800

Oh yeah, sorry. I knew it was there, I just forgot how it got there. At any rate, good stuff.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:50:59 -0800

I think I just *may* be able to get some use out of this....

By: glider

glider — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:58:34 -0800

I did some test searches for terms where I'm very familiar with the media out there, and a vast majority of the actual content produced that's not just a blog posting is copyrighted commercial material... I even found media that had been stolen from my own site -- which is definitely NOT creative-commons licensed.

By: catachresoid

catachresoid — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:20:36 -0800

Yahoo is making a play for geek/blogger cred. I think it's a given that they've got some enhipped people within the organization. The questions are: do those people have control and if so can they maintain control? Do the leaders value neat things because they are neat, or only because neat things can produce grassroots advertising?