Usage Rights in Search

Saw this piece on Google Blogoscoped. Looks like Google provides an option for filtering results based on "Usage Rights." Options are, "Return results that:"

• allow some forms of reuse
• can be freely modified, adapted, or built upon

This looks to be a URL parameter rather than any special syntax. Doing a search for new media fiction with the allow some forms of reuse I noticed the following in the query string:

as_rights=cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute

I'm guessing from the cc that this allows filtering by "Creative Commons" license. This is just a guess, though. I should google it to find out for sure.

Posted by deryck on November 4, 2005

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