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Yahoo Search sucks up Flickr streams
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Yahoo Search sucks up Flickr streams | Yahoo Search sucks up Flickr streams |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 28 June 2007 | |
Yahoo Image Search now returns images stored in Flickr as well as those its spider discovers on the web.Featured Whitepaper
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Given that thousands of images may be uploaded by Flickr users in one minute, this approach will clearly give more up to date results than crawling a web site. Flickr images are credited as being "By <membername> on Flickr", with a hyperlink to that person's public photo stream. Some Flickr users have complained that while Flickr offers a 'hide images from public searches' option, there is no provision for them to specify the terms under which a public photo may be used, and this could result in even more widespread copyright infringement.{moscomment} |
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