Google launches Creative Commons image search
If you work in charity communications you probably already know about the joys of creative commons licensing. It's the quickest and cheapest way to legally obtain quality photography (and increasingly other media) and disseminate your own to the wider world, allowing others to remix and share as they go.
The only problem is that searching for the good stuff usually takes a lot longer than your average bit of online research. The Creative Commons search is a bit clunky and Flickr (which probably has the best selection of CC licensed material out there) is kind of slow.
Now Google have announced that they are supporting Creative Commons searches in their image search which until now has been useful only to the lazy and quality-averse. As you'd expect from Google it's fast and simple, which is just what you need. Just do an advanced image search and select your chosen license from the drop down 'usage' options and away you go.
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