Creative Commons Unveils Search Tool Where You Can Find 300 Million Free Images
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If you’re often on the lookout for free images to use and remix in your projects, you might want to bookmark Creative Commons’ handy new tool.
The organization, which distributes creative works for others to legally use and modify for free, has overhauled its search engine to make it easier for internet users to download CC images.
Having been in beta mode for years, the new ‘CC Search’ is now home to over 300 million free images from 19 collections, which consist of photos from Flickr, graphics and artworks from DeviantArt, exhibits from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art, 3D designs from Thingiverse, and more.
The nonprofit describes in a blog post that it is “focused on images that creators desire to reuse in meaningful ways, learning about how these images are reused in the wild, and incorporating that learning back into ‘CC Search’.”
Its long-term plan, however, is to finally be a portal to some 1.4 billion CC-licensed works. These include audio and open textbooks, which it plans to upload later in the year.
In time, the new ‘CC Search’ will be upgraded with the ability to browse collections without entering keywords, advanced filters, better accessibility, and an improved interface for mobile. You can check it out here.
The old ‘CC Search’
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The new ‘CC Search’
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