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Big changes for CC Search beta: updates released today!

Today, we’ve released a significant update to our working beta of the CC Search product. We launched the project in February 2017 to provide a new “front door” to the Commons with the ultimate goal to find and index all 1.4 billion+ CC licensed works on the web. Since then, our newly formed tech team … Read More “Big changes for CC Search beta: updates released today!”

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