[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":491},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-19791073":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":33,"aspects":34,"strip":45,"post_text":47,"what":48,"said":82,"maker_in_thread":219,"shape":230,"grid":234,"attempts":452,"same_week":453,"maker_shows":41,"maker_hidden":483,"reader_version":484,"card":485},"19791073","CC Search","search engine for 300M CC-licensed images","title","Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images","https:\u002F\u002Fsearch.creativecommons.org\u002F","search.creativecommons.org","kgodey",1556652435,2019,375,87,66,2195,4,"legend","creative","image search","web_app",[24,25,21,26],"creative commons images","cc licensed photos","public domain images","debated",-0.059,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":30},13,19,3,48,{"docs":35,"idea":38,"design":40,"execution":42,"privacy":44},{"positive":36,"critical":37},1,0,{"positive":39,"critical":36},6,{"positive":41,"critical":32},2,{"positive":41,"critical":43},7,{"positive":37,"critical":41},[32,32,32,46,46,46,32,36,46,37,32,36,46,32,37,37,36,32,37,36,46,36,32,32,32,32,32,46,36,36,32,36,46,36,46,32,46,46,32,36],5,null,{"problem":49,"audience":56,"pricing":47,"motivation":68,"time_to_build":72,"stack":78,"openness":79,"stage":80,"team_size":81},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Finding images under Creative Commons licenses for reuse is hard","maker",[53],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},"19792640","I'm Director of Engineering at Creative Commons and part of the team that is working on CC Search. We've been working on the product for over a year and we are just out of beta…",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"People looking for freely reusable images, including researchers and practitioners","commenter",[60,64],{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"19792982","mendeza","This is nice, I can see this being used for computer vision researchers and practitioners to train CNNs. Have you thought of implementing a reverse image search engine? That…",{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"19795558","spectaclepiece","Excellent project, this simplifies the process I currently have of searching many different sources and applying a cc filter (mostly Flickr and Google images). The two image…",{"value":69,"source":51,"evidence":70},"Encourage use and remixing of CC-licensed content by making it discoverable",[71],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"value":73,"source":51,"evidence":74},"A year of work by three engineers",[75],{"id":76,"by":11,"text":77},"19801388","We've been working on it for a year and we have one data engineer, one backend engineer, and one frontend engineer. We recently set up a tech blog[0] and we have upcoming posts…",[],"open_source","launched","team",{"praise":83,"objections":100,"requests":145,"questions":180,"alternatives":195},[84,96],{"value":85,"source":58,"evidence":86},"Useful consolidated search for CC images, saving time over multiple sites",[87,88,92],{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},"19796203","jpincheira","Unsplash has 0,95M, and CC Search 300M. Love this. No more flickr search for when I needed to find CC photos. \u003C3 Thanks for much for your work @kgodey and to your team.",{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"19792557","Mirioron","I had no idea this even existed. That's really cool.",{"value":97,"source":51,"evidence":98},"Open source and open development",[99],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},[101,120,127,134],{"value":102,"source":58,"evidence":103},"Search relevance is poor for many queries",[104,108,112,116],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"19793015","mikece","Neat... though searching on \"F-14\" returned a lot of yoga images instead of the naval fighter (searching \"F14\" returned what I was looking for).",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"19795686","reiinakano","I did a search for Flamingo and there were no flamingos...",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"19796351","aurelwu","Nice, I have been mostly using bing as search engine for public domain \u002F\u002F CC0 images and it worked reasonable well but a search engine specialized on this area is something which…",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"19796035","cannedslime","It is always nice to have search engines for free stuff. I have minor gripes with the engine. - Browser navigation doesn't work. Going back doesnt take you to your previous…",{"value":121,"source":58,"evidence":122},"Licence verification is not guaranteed; some images are not really CC",[123],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"19793527","scanny","Out of curiosity, are there any checks run on these images to see if they really are CC? This search result for 'satellites' is a screenshot of a google maps result, which…",{"value":128,"source":58,"evidence":129},"Many Flickr CC images are missing from the index",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"19793837","empressplay","There are _a lot_ of CC licensed images coming up through Flickr search that are nowhere to be found in CC Search and since the vast majority of CC Search's images come from…",{"value":135,"source":58,"evidence":136},"Page does not work without JavaScript and has usability bugs",[137,141],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"19795359","z92","Excellent job. Thanks for all the hard work. A few usability issues. 1\u002F Doesn't work without javascript. and 2\u002F At screen resolution 800x600 the search field gets completely…",{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"19793511","carapace","Blank page with JS disabled.",[146,154,165,169],{"value":147,"source":58,"evidence":148},"More search filters such as size, orientation, date and EXIF",[149,153],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"19794674","Ao7bei3s","Nice project! Thanks for working on it! It would be great if there were more search filters. Especially size (\"larger than\") and date (\"within x-y\", \"last 1…",{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},{"value":155,"source":58,"evidence":156},"Audio and music search with licence filters",[157,161],{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"19793215","rixrax","Thank You for doing this. I hope one day we will see a similar search for CC licensed music where you can search based on license type, and e.g. music style, beats per minute,…",{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"19795281","200_OK","This is great. Is this all CC0 or do some of the images have conditions? My wishlist would include also including videos and music\u002Faudio and an API to access it. I'm sure that's…",{"value":166,"source":58,"evidence":167},"Reverse image search",[168],{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},{"value":170,"source":58,"evidence":171},"Better relevance through tagging or user feedback",[172,176],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"19796345","propogandist","have you considered using something like the reCaptcha approach, where you have users classify\u002Fimprove results?",{"id":177,"by":178,"text":179},"19796070","pbhjpbhj","Presumably they're going to allow tag editing, maybe using a known-good-user concordance system, with meta grading (if your tags are always removed you lose trading rights).",[181,188],{"value":182,"source":58,"evidence":183},"How can images be marked so the search picks up their licence",[184],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"19792650","detaro","If I put images in the internet, how can I tell your search about them\u002Fabout the license?",{"value":189,"source":58,"evidence":190},"Whether the API can be used programmatically",[191],{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"19793926","sbr464","Is there a search API available or would it be against the terms to access the site programmatically?",[196,203,208,212],{"value":197,"source":58,"evidence":198},"Google Image Search usage rights filter",[199],{"id":200,"by":201,"text":202},"19794268","Sommer","Definitely appreciate the programmatic access, but in terms of straight search results it's very hard to improve on Google Image Search with the Usage Rights filter.. Info:…",{"value":204,"source":58,"evidence":205},"Flickr CC search",[206,207],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},{"id":89,"by":90,"text":91},{"value":209,"source":58,"evidence":210},"Bing for CC0 images",[211],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},{"value":213,"source":58,"evidence":214},"Wikimedia Commons",[215],{"id":216,"by":217,"text":218},"19795983","Amorymeltzer","Pretty neat! Another great resource is the 53 million or so files on Wikimedia Commons — https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002F — which don't appear to be searched by this. Commons…",{"comments":220,"answered":221,"key":222},25,10,[223,224,227],{"id":54,"text":55},{"id":225,"text":226},"19793931","We plan to implement an API for users to submit CC-licensed works that they'd like to add to our database later this year. Once we have that, you can call our API when you…",{"id":228,"text":229},"19794066","Thanks! I’ve added this to the pipeline of ideas on our roadmap [0]. 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