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Compfight – Simple Flickr Search

Posted by John Saddington on Oct 30, 2008

Sometimes the best stuff out on the web are the more focused and easiest to use.  It’s simple.  Compfight.com is one of those services:  It’s a simple flickr search engine based on their extensive API.

With a few custom filters for easy searching one can find images (Creative Commons) for use on your blog, church website, or ministry banner, or whatever!

Here’s a couple screenshots, but, it’ll probably be faster if you just go there and give it a spin.  Knock yourself out.

Here’s a shot of the search results for “church”…

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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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14 Responses to “Compfight – Simple Flickr Search”

  1. leoschmidt08
    Monday, November 10, 2008 at 11:35 am

    How do you think this differs from just using their advanced search? It seems to spit out the same number of results, just maybe in a little different order.

    I do like the thumbnail view, though. That is much better than having to scroll through three or four times as many pages.

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  2. human3rror
    Monday, November 10, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    it's relatively the same (unless I'm missing something)… but perhaps it makes people happy… it's all about perception, right?

    i think the web is heading to a more visual place… perhaps because we're all so A.D.D… but, maybe that's me.

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  3. leoschmidt08
    Monday, November 10, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    I think you are right about the A.D.D.

    One instance I did consider after writing my comment was my design partner. I bet she would really benefit from seeing a lot more images on one page so she can quickly discern which ones she wants. I passed it on to her so we will see how she likes it… she is slow to change. :)

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  4. human3rror
    Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 8:40 am

    i thnk the web's headed toward a more “visual” approach… one part of my web3.0 manifesto…

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  5. leoschmidt08
    Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    When you have your web3.0 manifesto ready, I would love to hear it. I will make sure you are listed on Wikipedia as the creator of web 3.0. ;)

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  6. leoschmidt08
    Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 1:44 pm

    Well, after showing quite a bit of doubt in my previous comments, I am now on board. I have used their system multiple times since you wrote about it. Very cool and it makes searching much easier. Like you said, more visual works in this case.

    Thanks for the recom.

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  7. human3rror
    Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 6:02 am

    sure sure. things awesome. a fav.

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  8. human3rror
    Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 6:03 am

    bleh. i'm not the creator of much of anything. someone's already far more brain-advanced than me…

    :)

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  9. leoschmidt08
    Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    You can say that again!!!

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  10. human3rror
    Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    again.

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  1. churchcrunch (churchcrunch)

    New blog post: Compfight – Simple Flickr Search http://tinyurl.com/6znshy

  2. churchcrunch (churchcrunch)

    New blog post: Compfight – Simple Flickr Search http://tinyurl.com/6znshy

  3. human3rror (human3rror)

    RT @churchcrunch: New Blog Post: Compfight – Simple Flickr Search http://tinyurl.com/6znshy – heart da flickr.

  4. human3rror (human3rror)

    RT @churchcrunch: New Blog Post: Compfight – Simple Flickr Search http://tinyurl.com/6znshy – heart da flickr.