Since March, Yahoo has had a search engine specifically for Creative Commons content. Now Yahoo has taken the sensible step of enhancing its general search engine with an optional CC filter. The option is available from the Yahoo advanced search page.
(PS: I repeat my comment from March: 'All search engines can offer this service and undoubtedly more and more of them will. As copyright locks down more content more tightly, searchers will want reuse rights almost as much as relevance. Search engines that find both will have an advantage. Conversely, authors and publishers who consent to grant more reuse rights than fair-use alone already provides should make their consent machine-readable for the next generation of search engines.')
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/28/2005 09:50:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
