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July 19th, 2005

July 19th, 2005
03:08 pm [Link]	Much ado about Creative Commons From the Creative Commons press release:For example, a documentary filmmaker could use the Creative Commons engine to search for “images of the Eiffel Tower free for noncommercial use,” and incorporate any or all of the many photographs indexed. Of course when you do, in fact, search for “images of the Eiffel Tower free for noncommercial use”, the only results the search engine displays are links to the press release itself. It requires 4 more clicks (1 - give me more than 2 results on a page, you dummy!, 2 - click a link in a some stupid blog entry, 3 - click a link in another stupid blog entry, 4 - finally, a picture). Boy, even in my VB days we made sure the application does what the press release says it did. (Leave a comment)
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03:24 pm [Link]	More open source dementia Nutch is open source web-search software. The search box at its home page says "Search the site with google:". And it does. (3 comments | Leave a comment)