[cc-community] for those who want "free only" buttons
Benj. Mako Hill
mako at atdot.cc
Wed Feb 14 01:31:47 EST 2007
Thanks for your very useful reply.
<quote who="Mike Linksvayer" date="Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:20:11PM -0800">
> You can always use no anchortext or hide the link with css, but I
> suspect given how well exploited these are that search engines are smart
> enough to throw away such links.
That's a good point. Do you think they would do this categorically (and
even for doing limited searches for just works under a permissive
license)?
> On freedomdefined.org you have two license links in the footer, so it
> would be easy to change just one of those.
Yes. I'm less worried about what we do on freedomdefined.org and more
worried about what we encourage other to do. I don't want to suggest
that people do anything that it would make it harder to find free works.
I'm really just trying to understand what search engines for free
content are actually doing so that I understand what the constraints
in play are.
Regards,
Mako
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