Free Creative Commons Content Search Engine

Videos, audio files, and images that are free to use commercially are a little difficult to find online. Given the number of sites offering such media, it can be quite time consuming to search each site individually. CC Search is one site that lets you search for free media from different sites under a single interface.

CC Search is a free media search engine that scans metadata associated with media; this enables it to give you access to the freely licensed content available from many popular content providers such as Blip, Flickr, Fotopedia, Google, Jamendo, Open Clip Art Library, SpinXpress, and Wikipedia Commons.

You select your source according to your desired media type: images, vector images, audio files, or videos. Then choose to search for media that is free to use commercially and/or can be modified. The search results are displayed on the source site’s page as if you conducted the search on the source site itself.

You can also choose the site’s old interface and view the results under CC Search’s own frame. The older interface also makes it easier to jump from one source to another through tabbed buttons.

Features:

  • A user friendly media search engine.
  • Lets you search for cc content that is free to use commercially.
  • Searches a number of popular content providers.
  • Lets you search for images, vector images, audio files, and videos.

Visit: labs.creativecommons.org/demos/search/search1

Vecteezy – Free Vector Art Downloads

Vecteezy is the place to share your free Vector Art and other vector-related resources. Here you can explore and discuss the creations of other artists from around the world, or just find that perfect little freebie for your next project. Vecteezy makes it easy to explore thousands of graphics created by vector artists from all over the globe. All the graphics are free to download and, depending on the license, free to use in your projects.

If you are looking for a place to share and promote your Vector Art, Vecteezy gets more than a million visitors a month to ensure lots of attention for your creations. The thousands of active members on Vecteezy also create a community of like-minded people to discuss your resources with and to receive feedback from. If you so choose, you can license your resource with Vecteezy’s Creative Commons license wizard – giving you fine-grained control over how your files are used.

Free downloadable vector files include vector Icons, vector patterns, vector swirls, flourishes, backgrounds, wallpapers, Illustrator brushes, and many more.

Visit: vecteezy.com