YouTube’s ‘Sort by date’ filter for keyword search appears to have stopped working. Multiple different Web browsers, with or totally without addons, all show the same thing. Search seems to be stuck on ‘Relevance’.

Update: after 11 days, it returned on the 28th March, albeit with what appears to be a ‘gap’ in coverage.

There’s a new substantial source of CC0 images, Collections at the Musee de Bretagne (Museum of Brittany, northern France). A test search for “Paris” pictures with images and under CC0 gave 1,298 results. Downloads were initiated by a simple mouse-click, with no hoops to jump through.

In the first tests, image size results were variable, with some being low-res and fuzzy and others being crisp medium-res 3Mb images. Obviously searches will require a passing knowledge of French, as there appears to be no English language interface or tagging. Thus a search for “cat” needs one to know that “chat” is the French word for a cat, and that chromolithograph is “chromolithographie”. Changing the search term from “Paris” to “chat” demonstrated that the site’s search filters/facets are retained across searches. Loading and download speeds are excellent.

A search of the site via Google Images returned no CC results at all, for site:www.collections.musee-bretagne.fr/ “Paris” — under any CC licence. This suggests that Google may be having problems detecting the licences. Google does however offer a useful 2Mb size filter.