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Compfight: Search Flickr for CC-licensed images

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by Sacha Chua

One of the hidden gems in David Gillespie’s Digital Strangelove: or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Internet is a hat-tip to Compfight, a Flickr search engine. I like the search interface more than Flickr’s built-in Advanced Search, because you can continuously scroll through the thumbnails instead of paging through the results.

More Creative Commons search options would be nice. =)

What I really want is an advanced search engine that lets me specify subject position and dominant color, like Stockxpert’s. Someday!

Thanks to Suzanne for the link!

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1. Writings of a Geek // Jan 12, 2010 at 8:38 am

   Thank you very much for this instructive article! For my part I come to write an article on the programming and the creation of an search engine of images Flickr (http://bit.ly/4O4NP9)

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