Compfight: Search Flickr for CC-licensed images

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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!

You can view 3 comments or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.

3 comments

Writings of a Geek

2010-01-12T18:38:08Z

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)

Emmanuel Goldstein

2020-05-08T05:53:31Z

HI Sacha. Re online images: Do you know if there is a way to display inline remote images, as in inserting their link and having them displayed in orgmode? Thanks.

Haven't looked into it, sorry. You might be able to find out by asking on the Org Mode mailing list or reddit.com/r/orgmode . Good luck!