Yahoo Image Search Update – Now Filters Creative Commons Images

Yahoo Image Search Update – Now Filters Creative Commons Images015 Jan 2013creative commons license, flick license, Yahoo Image Search Update – Now Filters Creative Commons Images by Barry

In a recent update to their image search, Yahoo have introduced a filter to allow you to only display images covered by the Creative Commons license, which you are allowed to reuse (sometimes with conditions, please check).  This is particularly useful when writing blog posts or looking for images to use for presentations etc.

Firstly, this filter only appears to be active on http://images.search.yahoo.com, and is not yet active on http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/.

When searching for images, in the case below I searched for ‘FreePhotoResources’, Yahoo displays images from the web as you would expect:

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