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[How-To] Find Creative Commons Images Using Google Image Search

I earlier wrote a post about finding images which can be re-used online on your blog or website (obviously by sharing the credit of the image), now Google, the big daddy of search also allows you to share images with creative commons usage permissions through its Image Search.

This article describes step by step instructions for finding creative commons licensed images using Google Image Search. It uses the latest image search feature added by Google. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.

1.) Navigate to the Google Image Search and click on Advanced Image Search ( as boxed in the image below)

google-image-search

2.) Once you have clicked on the Advanced Image Search link, look out for the input box which says “Usage Rights“. Select appropriate usage rights. For example, lets select ‘labeled for reuse’ and enter some text for searching ( keyword for the image).

Image: Filtering Google Image Search Results based on creative commons license.

Image: Filtering Google Image Search Results based on creative commons license.

3.) Click on Google Search. The results you get are now as per the option selected by you.

While the above steps do give you the refined search results based on the option selected by you. Google does mention that you’ll still have to verify that the licensing information is accurate. They can help you take the first step towards finding these images, but they can’t guarantee that the content linked to is actually in the public domain, or available under the license.So i would say, use it with care.

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  2. I find this feature pretty useful, though the no of clicks is too much, they should have added some direct option from Google image search page instead of advanced search.

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