CcSearch at http://search.creativecommons.org (also accessible via Firefox) simply "frames" CC-enabled search engines.

To accomplish this, candidate search engines need to support the following query components in GET URLs:

• keyword
• restriction to only CC-licensed or PD results
  • restriction to only results that permit commercial use
  • restriction to only results that permit derivative works

Typically, these will map to four URLs, each with an arbitary keyword parameter.

Example implementations

Yahoo! Web Search

• Any CC
  • http://search.yahoo.com/search?cc=1&p=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial use
  • http://search.yahoo.com/search?cc=1&ccs=c&p=KEYWORDS
• Permits derivative works
  • http://search.yahoo.com/search?cc=1&ccs=e&p=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial and derivative use
  • http://search.yahoo.com/search?cc=1&ccs=c&ccs=e&p=KEYWORDS

Google Web Search

• Any CC
  • http://google.com/search?as_rights=(cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_noncommercial%7Ccc_nonderived)&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial use
  • http://google.com/search?as_rights=(cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_nonderived).-(cc_noncommercial)&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits derivative works
  • http://google.com/search?as_rights=(cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_noncommercial).-(cc_nonderived)&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial and derivative use
  • http://google.com/search?as_rights=(cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike).-(cc_noncommercial%7Ccc_nonderived)&q=KEYWORDS

Blip.tv Video Search

• Any CC
  • http://blip.tv/posts/view/?section=/posts/view&sort=popularity&license=1,6,7,2,3,4,5&search=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial use
  • http://blip.tv/posts/view/?section=/posts/view&sort=popularity&license=1,6,7,2&search=KEYWORDS
• Permits derivative works
  • http://blip.tv/posts/view/?section=/posts/view&sort=popularity&license=1,6,7,4,5&search=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial and derivative use
  • http://blip.tv/posts/view/?section=/posts/view&sort=popularity&license=1,6,7&search=KEYWORDS

Flickr Image Search

• Any CC
  • http://flickr.com/search/?l=cc&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial use
  • http://flickr.com/search/?l=comm&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits derivative works
  • http://flickr.com/search/?l=deriv&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial and derivative use
  • http://flickr.com/search/?l=commderiv&q=KEYWORDS

Owl Multimedia Audio Search

• Any CC
  • http://www.owlmm.com/?query_source=CC&license_type=cc&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial use
  • http://www.owlmm.com/?query_source=CC&license_type=comm&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits derivative works
  • http://www.owlmm.com/?query_source=CC&license_type=deriv&q=KEYWORDS
• Permits commercial and derivative use
  • http://www.owlmm.com/?query_source=CC&license_type=commderiv&q=KEYWORDS