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I found this article at Google Blogscoped and realized that most people with a blog or webpage who want to use your content on their webpage may have a hard time finding your “free to use” content.
Google allows you to search specifically for free-to-share content. Just select e.g. “free to use or share or modify†from the usage rights box in the advanced search options. Yahoo has a similar option.
So how can you make sure your site is found with that search option? When I switched to Creative Commons-licensing for this blog a while ago, I figured Google would understand the change, ’cause I linked to the Creative Commons page identifying the usage rights. But doing a site-search on this blog recently (site:blog.outer-court.com) showed that no page was found using the CC option. I then included the full meta data of the license onto every page of this blog (you can copy the meta data from the Creative Commons website after choosing your license) …
like this), either one of which might have triggered the change as well.
Comparing the Google page count for a search for “the†(in different languages), we can see that about 0.6%* of all webpages so far also include a CC license.
*A search for [the | der | le | la | 1] returned 15,080,000,000 results not filtered by license, and 84,700,000 results free to use or share (“free to use or share†is a subset of “not filtered by licenseâ€, and e.g. “free to use, share or modify, even commercially is a subset of “free to use or shareâ€).
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