CC Search
Creative
image search
SHOW HN2019
375points
87comments
#66of 2,195 in 2019
Top 4%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
13 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 13 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Execution: 2 for, 7 againstIdea: 6 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful consolidated search for CC images, saving time over multiple sites
From 3 comments
Excellent project, this simplifies the process I currently have of searching many different sources and applying a cc filter (mostly Flickr and Google images). The two image…
spectaclepiece on HNUnsplash has 0,95M, and CC Search 300M. Love this. No more flickr search for when I needed to find CC photos. <3 Thanks for much for your work @kgodey and to your team.
jpincheira on HNI had no idea this even existed. That's really cool.
Mirioron on HN
Open source and open development
From 1 comment
I'm Director of Engineering at Creative Commons and part of the team that is working on CC Search. We've been working on the product for over a year and we are just out of beta…
kgodey on HN
Objections
Search relevance is poor for many queries
From 4 comments
Neat... though searching on "F-14" returned a lot of yoga images instead of the naval fighter (searching "F14" returned what I was looking for).
mikece on HNI did a search for Flamingo and there were no flamingos...
reiinakano on HNNice, I have been mostly using bing as search engine for public domain // CC0 images and it worked reasonable well but a search engine specialized on this area is something which…
aurelwu on HNIt is always nice to have search engines for free stuff. I have minor gripes with the engine. - Browser navigation doesn't work. Going back doesnt take you to your previous…
cannedslime on HN
Licence verification is not guaranteed; some images are not really CC
From 1 comment
Out of curiosity, are there any checks run on these images to see if they really are CC? This search result for 'satellites' is a screenshot of a google maps result, which…
scanny on HN
Many Flickr CC images are missing from the index
From 1 comment
There are _a lot_ of CC licensed images coming up through Flickr search that are nowhere to be found in CC Search and since the vast majority of CC Search's images come from…
empressplay on HN
Page does not work without JavaScript and has usability bugs
From 2 comments
Excellent job. Thanks for all the hard work. A few usability issues. 1/ Doesn't work without javascript. and 2/ At screen resolution 800x600 the search field gets completely…
z92 on HNBlank page with JS disabled.
carapace on HN
Requests
More search filters such as size, orientation, date and EXIF
From 2 comments
Nice project! Thanks for working on it! It would be great if there were more search filters. Especially size ("larger than") and date ("within x-y", "last 1…
Ao7bei3s on HNExcellent project, this simplifies the process I currently have of searching many different sources and applying a cc filter (mostly Flickr and Google images). The two image…
spectaclepiece on HN
Audio and music search with licence filters
From 2 comments
Thank You for doing this. I hope one day we will see a similar search for CC licensed music where you can search based on license type, and e.g. music style, beats per minute,…
rixrax on HNThis is great. Is this all CC0 or do some of the images have conditions? My wishlist would include also including videos and music/audio and an API to access it. I'm sure that's…
200_OK on HN
Reverse image search
From 1 comment
This is nice, I can see this being used for computer vision researchers and practitioners to train CNNs. Have you thought of implementing a reverse image search engine? That…
mendeza on HN
Better relevance through tagging or user feedback
From 2 comments
have you considered using something like the reCaptcha approach, where you have users classify/improve results?
propogandist on HNPresumably they're going to allow tag editing, maybe using a known-good-user concordance system, with meta grading (if your tags are always removed you lose trading rights).
pbhjpbhj on HN
Questions
How can images be marked so the search picks up their licence
From 1 comment
If I put images in the internet, how can I tell your search about them/about the license?
detaro on HN
Whether the API can be used programmatically
From 1 comment
Is there a search API available or would it be against the terms to access the site programmatically?
sbr464 on HN
Alternatives named
Google Image Search usage rights filter
From 1 comment
Definitely appreciate the programmatic access, but in terms of straight search results it's very hard to improve on Google Image Search with the Usage Rights filter.. Info:…
Sommer on HN
Flickr CC search
From 2 comments
There are _a lot_ of CC licensed images coming up through Flickr search that are nowhere to be found in CC Search and since the vast majority of CC Search's images come from…
empressplay on HNUnsplash has 0,95M, and CC Search 300M. Love this. No more flickr search for when I needed to find CC photos. <3 Thanks for much for your work @kgodey and to your team.
jpincheira on HN
Bing for CC0 images
From 1 comment
Nice, I have been mostly using bing as search engine for public domain // CC0 images and it worked reasonable well but a search engine specialized on this area is something which…
aurelwu on HN
Wikimedia Commons
From 1 comment
Pretty neat! Another great resource is the 53 million or so files on Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ — which don't appear to be searched by this. Commons…
Amorymeltzer on HN