[cc-community] A new search engine for high quality CC images on Flickr

Alexei Yavlinsky alexei at yavlinsky.com
Sun Aug 19 13:52:06 EDT 2007


Dear Community Members,

We would very much like to get your feedback on the search engine we've 
been working on called Behold http://www.beholdsearch.com .

Its goal is to index high quality images on Flickr released under 
various Creative Commons licenses. Behold attempts to catalogue CC 
images with quality comparable to that of professional image archives 
such as Getty Images or Corbis, by using the social structure of Flickr 
and image content analysis. A new feature is the ability to search for 
images that visually resemble a particular concept, in addition to 
standard tag-based search.

The ultimate aim of Behold is to offer graphic designers and artists 
access to high quality images that they can freely use.

Please let us know what you think of this early technology. We would 
also welcome suggestions and pointers to other sources of high quality 
CC images.

Many thanks and kind regards,

Alexei Yavlinsky
BeholdSearch.com chief developer


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