Search Flickr for Source Material with New Free Tool
When I’m looking for inspiration, or I want to see what kinds of images other people associate with particular concepts, I often search flickr. Now Ryan Teuscher and Bryan Denman have made that easier with compfight, a flickr search bar.
compfight, which its creators say was put together with “with glue sticks and rubber bands,” can filter images on several criteria; for example, it can limit the search to images licensed by Creative Commons.
Like flickr, compfight is free.
Results of a compfight search on “Santa Cruz Boardwalk.”

This article was last modified on April 4, 2022
This article was first published on March 28, 2008
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