discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Matthew Haughey wrote:
> After checking out BetterSearch for Firefox[1], I was intrigued by how a 
> plugin could basically insert new information into a Google result page 
> and my first thought was "How hard would it be to extend ccMoz[2] to do 
> something similar with Google results pages?"
>
> I could request the BetterSearch developer to roll this into the plugin 
> but figured it might be easy to extend existing code like mozCC into 
> displaying added info on Google itself (maybe even Google images too?)

Great idea.  Looks very doable.  It'd a little bit different from 
BetterSearch's existing info source -- Amazon/Alexa web services.

The extension would have to fetch each search result and look for 
metadata there as mozCC does now when browsing a page.  Doing so would 
open up lots of other possibilities for metadata extraction, e.g., 
outgoing links, FOAF, XFN, technorati tags, in addition to license info.

Would be cool as a BetterSearch enhancement or as an independent tool.

Separately, BetterSearch could include search.creativecommons.org in the 
list of sites it can enhance with images and info from Alexa/Amazon.

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  Mike Linksvayer
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