Open Your CC Image Search Eyes to Openverse
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Oct 14, 2022
As Alan Levine reported Google's open access image search is broken. It finds only a handful of openly licensed images even for popular search terms. Also, "unless you stuck to reliable sources in the results, I ended up dipping into a slimy pit of public domain leech sources". So he suggests using Openverse as an alternative. "It takes way any uncertainty on the usage of the images," he writes. "No guessing the license. No being served up media from sites that do not give credit to the author." It does have its faults, though: I found it redefines my search for "Downes" as a search for "down". This produces odd results: my search for "Stephen Downes birds" produces a slew of images of helicopters and motorcycles. Still, even this is better than Google's image search.
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