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Bloggers Rejoice! Google Images Goes Creative Commons

Posted by John Saddington on Jul 9, 2009

Picture 2This is definitely a great thing for bloggers because having any type of media (images, video, etc) is a consistently used strategy for making blog posts look better.

Now that Google has given the advanced option of searching for Creative Commons-usage images, you can find that right image for your blog post faster!

As you can see, all you have to do is go into advanced image options and select the drop-down at the bottom.

Make sure you double-check the license on the images though if you start using this a lot; Google doesn’t guarantee the accuracy of the return.

w00t!

What other services do you use to find images for your posts?

[HT: TechCrunch]

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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11 Responses to “Bloggers Rejoice! Google Images Goes Creative Commons”

  1. Jay
    Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 6:15 pm

    I usually hit Flickr. I go to the advanced search and check off the ones that are under the Creative Commons license.

    Sometimes though I forget and I see an AWESOME image, go to download and that's when I see, "All Rights Reserved"….Doh!

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  2. Jonathanj
    Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    I have been waiting for this since I've been blogging! There are at times images on google that I prefer over images on flickr. Sweet

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  3. Jonathanj
    Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    OH yea, "other" services include flickr, and as you can imagine, my trusty ol' personal phone and camera — I like those the best (when I get a good image)

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  4. Kiers
    Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    http://www.sxc.hu – always good for free images

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  5. anivus
    Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    ive been rocking flickr for a while… but google… dang gina. It's like my blog died and went to picture heaven !!!!!

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  6. stephenbateman
    Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Glory. It's about time right? I love doing things legally.

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  7. joannamuses
    Friday, July 10, 2009 at 1:31 am

    That's fantastic news. will make finding photos for blogposts so much easier

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  8. Aaron
    Friday, July 10, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    human3rror.com
    :P

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