Wylio Flickr App and Creative Commons searches - a mashup made in heaven!

Wylio makes Creative Commons image searches easy

While frolicking in the Flickr App Garden, I came across a very unassuming little app that does a pretty amazing job.

How about an app that searches free photo hosting sites such as Flickr and provides you with only Creative Commons attributed images that are free to use?  I'm thinking, yippee and hooray and words to that effect.

Well, Wylio does just that. There is a subscription to pay of about $US3 a month for a download of 125 images or a pro subscription for $10 for over 1000 images.  You can play for free, but that limits you to 5 images per month and there is advertising with the free subscription.  All very reasonable I'm feeling. 

If you are looking for a pretty interface, then you won't find it here, but this search engine is very powerful and what a time saver!  I did a few simple keyword searches and was really impressed with the content it offered me every time.  And it not only searches, but provides the attributions for you as well and shows you an example of how the picture will download into your blog or text.  It uses Google Picasa Web Photo Albums to store your downloaded images.

I would gush a little more, but I'm off to do some more searching...