Google Image Search Adds Creative Commons Filter

Recently, OEN reported on the addition of Creative Commons searching to Google’s image-editing software, Picasa. Now Techwhack is pointing out that Google image search now has Creative Commons filtering. Unfortunately, the filter is not available through the default google image search interface yet. Instead, people can visit Google Operating System blog for a searchbar and examples of URLs for custom searches. The following are examples from the Google Operating System blog:

public domain images:

http://images.google.com/images?q=mountains&as_rights=cc_publicdomain

images licensed using Creative Commons Attribution:

http://images.google.com/images?q=mountains&as_rights=cc_attribute

images licensed using Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike:

http://images.google.com/images?q=mountains&as_rights=cc_sharealike