Flickr photo searching of Interestingness, Tags, Users, Groups (discussion) Courtesy of Fiveprime.org and MalcolmMacdonald.org. Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users and their contacts and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness. Flickr Hive Mind can also be an effective tool to identify stock photography with licenses that allow non-commercial (and sometimes) commercial use. Finally, Flickr Hive Mind supports authentication to Flickr, allowing visibility of your private and friends' photos as well as enabling your content filtering preferences. Written by: Nathan Siemers. Inspired by (and thanks to) Flickr Leech. Dedicated to Anna and her Flickritis. Flickr Hive Mind stores no personal information nor photos, but some general information ends up in my apache server logs (time, IP address). Any revenue generated through ads will be used only to cover the cost of keeping this site online, beyond that Fiveprime will make donations to Doctors Without Borders (also, there are no ads on User pages). Donations are now being made.

Flickr Hive Mind is a search engine as well as an experiment in the power of Folksonomies. All thumbnail images come directly from Flickr, none are stored on Flickr Hive Mind. These photos are bound by the copyright and license of their owners, the thumbnail links take to you to the photos (as well as their copyright and license details) within Flickr. Because some other search engines (Google, etc.) index parts of