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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