Google's Advanced Search page now includes a Usage Rights operator that filters results according to two Creative Commons license types: "Allow some form of re-use" and "Can be freely modified, adapted, or built upon." I found out about this via BoingBoing, so I tried the new operator on the key phrase cory doctorow, and indeed, the CC-filtered results make a big difference, bringing up results in BB and on Cory's other pages, and excluding unfiltered results such as articles mentioning him in mainstream media.
Google Adds CC to Advanced Search
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Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Data Recovery Software
5. I am not clear how this will affect the web search.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Search Engine Promotion
1. Does anyone have any idea how Google can tell what license a webpage is under?
Like, do you need to put in a meta tag, or does it search for the CC image that most people put down? Or something?
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Alan (DWZ)