Openverse
In April-May 2021, Catherine Stihler (Creative Commons) and Matt Mullenweg (WordPress Foundation, Automattic Inc.) announced that CC Search join to the WordPress project. Automattic paid to the Creative Commons for the search engine, hired key members of the CC Search team and sponsor their works to the project as part of Five for the Future commitment, which (search engine project) is, at the end of the arrangement, part of a WordPress project, not Automattic. A new name was also introduced, Openverse. Openverse is the successor to CC Search, developed of its code base. It aims to be a wider open content search engine. They will continue development work and expand features. WordPress Foundation owns Openverse trademark and its other intellectual property rights. Starting in December, CC Search users will be redirected to Openverse.