Why would Google release Creative Commons image search and not call it Creative Commons?! And why hide it under Advanced Search? And why doesn’t it return a good result for a search for Google FAIL?
Here’s what the Advanced Search functionality looks like:
Instead of calling it “Filter by Creative Commons license” or something else that would be sensible, they’ve hidden all the creative commons options under a “Usage rights” setting. How very Borg!
Of course, Google uses “Usage rights” because there are a few other free-to-use non-Creative Commons licenses thrown into the mix, like the GNU Free Documentation License, but there’s no way to search within a specific license type. More Google half-ass-ery if you ask me.
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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.