DRSE News

FindFreeClipart vs DRSE

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:38:06 -0400

I just noticed that someone copied my idea ! I have already notified my lawyers, and we will be suing shortly.

No, actually we both had the same obvious idea, and both use free google technology, so I can’t really complain.

Still, I feel like I need to defend my product, so here’s why DRSE is better.

Not commercial: the ads you see here don’t make me any money, they are all Google’s ads. In case you’re the type that’s annoyed by other people making money with a simple idea that you could’ve thought of, that should make you feel better.
Refinements: with DRSE, you can limit your search to vectors, brushes, tutorials, etc.
Better name: ok, DRSE doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but to me “clipart” evokes photos of people shaking hands and badly drawn animals.

CSE troubles

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:20:43 -0400

Some people have pointed out to me that Google CSEs can exhibit strange behavior, mainly omitting result compared to the regular google search. The official google position seems to be that CSE are made for 3 sites or less and are not guaranteed to be accurate for more, but since you can add an unlimited number this doesn’t make a ton of sense…

Anyway I felt it was important to be up front about this and tell you that the results you get might not always be 100% accurate (at least until the wonderful people at Google hire me to fix this).

If you want to learn more about the issue, you can check out this thread on google groups.

Latest Additions (April 15)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:24:01 -0400

http://speckyboy.com/

www.vectorsworkshop.com

www.aiga.org/content.cfm/symbol-signs

www.gomedia.us/arsenal/freestuff.php

www.webmasterpro.de

www.gfxworld.org

http://photoshopcontest.com/tutorials/photoshop-tips.html

Latest Additions (April 13)

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:59:46 -0400

Wow… requests to add sites just keep coming in !

www.iheartvector.com

creativepro.com

digital-artist-toolbox.com

www.designpicks.de

http://www.idesignhp.de

http://www.thegraphicmac.com/

Thanks for the links

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:21:38 -0400

Thanks to PSDtuts and Bittbox for featuring the search engine !

It’s also been saved by 133 people on delicious !

Latest Additions (April 12)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:10:00 -0400

www.arty.dk

fractured-sanity.org

brushes.500ml.org

http://justcreativedesign.com

http://www.thegraphicmac.com/

http://www.freevectors.net/

New Feature: Refinements

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:21:58 -0400

I’ve added refinements to the search engines, which are simply tags that you set on particular websites. For now I have “free vectors”, “photoshop brushes”, and “stock photos”. Clicking on one of them after a search will limit results to sites tagged with that keyword.

Latest Additions (April 6)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:20:01 -0400

http://melsbrushes.wordpress.com/

http://inspiredology.com/

http://www.vectorart.org/

http://www.youthedesigner.com/

http://www.ateneupopular.com/

Oops...

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:48:12 -0400

I just realized that I made a mistake right in the name of this page. Although “ressource” is the correct spelling in French (my native language), it actually only takes one “s” in english.

I’ll have to correct the header !