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Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

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Re: Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

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I'm not sure I've ever relied on google to tell me what a site like this had, when the site itself is fully indexed, as this one is. Freetext search over the metastate of title, author, format, date (when available) -seems to work.

They don’t have full text search of document contents though do they? I know Google wouldn’t have this for AA pages either, just curious

Re: Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

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I'm not sure I've ever relied on google to tell me what a site like this had, when the site itself is fully indexed, as this one is. Freetext search over the metastate of title, author, format, date (when available) -seems to work.

They don’t have full text search of document contents though do they? I know Google wouldn’t have this for AA pages either, just curious

Good point. So there is definitely a social utility in search over text which google does have, for the trove it scanned, hands and cats-pawprints and all.

Re: Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

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Google does search now? I mean, it's great to see but I'm not sure how this is going to challenge the convenience of my chosen brand of chatbot being able to find the same info without being scammed by 100 seo optimised junk sites.

Not sure. I understand they used to do search though.

(Love the username, BTW.)

Re: Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don’t have full text search of document contents though do they? I know Google wouldn’t have this for AA pages either, just curious

Good point. So there is definitely a social utility in search over text which google does have, for the trove it scanned, hands and cats-pawprints and all.

I’m pretty sure Google indexing pages from Anna’s archive would only get metadata, because AA doesn’t have the full text of the books on those pages. I think to get the full text you have to download the torrents, and I don’t think Google was doing that.

Re: Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

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Google does search now? I mean, it's great to see but I'm not sure how this is going to challenge the convenience of my chosen brand of chatbot being able to find the same info without being scammed by 100 seo optimised junk sites.

I have heard that chatbots aren’t affected by spam as much as Google when you ask them to search, is that true?

Re: Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

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Google does search now? I mean, it's great to see but I'm not sure how this is going to challenge the convenience of my chosen brand of chatbot being able to find the same info without being scammed by 100 seo optimised junk sites.

1. Your chatbot doesn't have its own internet scale search index.

2. You're being given information that may or may not be coming in part from junk sites. All you've done is give up the agency to look at sources and decide for yourself which ones are legitimate.

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