Wallhaven VS Openverse

Try searching at somewhere like wallhaven.cc[1], which aggregates wallpapers with good tagging, colour, size and ratio-based searches. A lot of the wallpapers there come from other sources like Flickr, interfacelift, Reddit, 4chan (for better or for worse), or just direct uploads. I wouldn't say credit is preserved particularly well at all times, which is a shame, but it is just a reverse image search away usually... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

If you use this service I Could potentially see you IP address and wallhaven.cc API key. I don't keep any of these logs and I think the consequences of this is fairly low. But if it is a concern do not use this service. Source: 6 months ago

This page has good wallpapers: Https://wallhaven.cc/. Source: about 1 year ago

Don't have the link anymore but almost certainly something I pulled off of https://wallhaven.cc/. Source: about 1 year ago

I usually do it this way: determine the size of the image you need, so sum horizontal and vertical resolution of both screens, then search an image at least that size (for example on wallhaven.cc). Source: about 1 year ago

Also see https://wordpress.org/openverse/ it allows you to filter to only public domain images. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Thanks for the HN treatment. As a followup piece, a Google response of this being "a bug". Followup story, my return rate for CC licensed images of "dog" went from 3 to 13. More than that, license info is not displayed (only linked), is frequently wrong, and photo credits often given to the site, not the creator of the image. https://cogdogblog.com/2022/10/google-cc-image-search-better-sad/ Try Openverse for much... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Last time I've checked, Creative Commons had their own search for things under their licenses. But now apparently that project got transferred to WordPress and is now named Openverse: https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.org Anyways, I'd argue that's the most comprehensive database of CC-licensed works. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

> In addition, a searchable database of Creative Commons works would be a welcome addition to the Internet. Openverse is a CC search engine with 600 million items: https://wordpress.org/openverse/ And of course, Google Images supports CC search for images. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago