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

erik erik at not-on.tv
Sun Aug 19 16:43:02 EDT 2007


Like searching on CC but I got only ten hits out of a million.
And when I get to the photo's I see whole sets of that user are cc  
and with the same topic. Why doesn't the search show this?
Happy to give you the search if you like.

greetings Erik

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On Aug 19, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Alexei Yavlinsky wrote:

> 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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