Search Engines
- Wayback Machine Search 150 Billion web pages preserved by the Internet Archive.
- Google advanced search can search for free licensed or PD works
- http://images.google.com - this still requires one to check the copyright status of each image.
- everystockphoto.com - Searching over 4.3 million public domain and creative commons photos including wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, and other features.
- PicFindr.com - Searches a hand picked collection of public domain-, free stock photo-, and photo community sites. Includes the ability to search by rights! (whether you need to give credit, ask permission or not)
- Spffy.com - Searches one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed.
- Recherchephoto.com - Searches public domain, and creative commons photos to use on your website.
- Bing.com - Has an Advanced Image Search, that offers images in different resolutions and also categorizes images. Allows free querying of the bing Image Search API up to a certain limit per day.
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