licence urls [was BitTorrent
Kevin Marks
cc at mediagora.com
Thu Jan 27 03:34:42 EST 2005
On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> Kevin Marks wrote:
>> Looking up the licence root on Technorati give the most popular
>> licences for the last 12 hours:
>> http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?
>> rank=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses
>
> Neat. I guess that this search is not restricted to pages with a
> rel="license" qualifier, as I see sites that don't have it.
Indeed; I do see a few thousand with the rel="license" though
> However, I guess you must be special casing CC license URLs as I don't
> offhand see the same two level results interface elsewhere apart from
> http://www.technorati.com/live/breakingnews.html .
Technorati does that automatically for sites that have a lot of recent
links to multiple sub-pages. CNN.com or new.bbc.co.uk generally trigger
it too.
> If url and keyword queries could be combined (AFAICT they can't be) a
> Technorati watchlist could be an interesting way to perform an ongoing
> search for stuff to reuse.
That's an a important future direction...
Also, the new tags stuff is rather nice for that:
http://www.technorati.com/tag/creative%20commons
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