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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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Post by n1xis10t »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #7
aunty_helen wrote: post #5

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.)

Yeah they’re pretty terrible now. Reminds me, this is an interesting article about search engines getting worse and failing, but the author didn’t get into the spam aspect iirc: https://archive.org/details/search-timeline

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

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Post by n1xis10t »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #10
aunty_helen wrote: post #5

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.

As for point one, is that true? I thought ChatGPT and Perplexity had their own indexes.

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

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Post by ggm »

n1xis10t wrote: post #8
ggm wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, thats more meta's trick. and they were "only doing it for the articles" not the pictures. I think. I dunno..

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

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Post by someperson »

Feels weird to say but I have found using Yandex of all places an excellent search engine for content that get taken down by DMCA requests.

Eg if you want to watch a movie that's not on Netflix using a web stream the search results are far better.

Feels like Google circa 2005.

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

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Post by negativelambda »

someperson wrote: post #15

Feels weird to say but I have found using Yandex of all places an excellent search engine for content that get taken down by DMCA requests. Eg if you want to watch a movie that's not on Netflix using a web stream the search results are far better. Feels like Google circa 2005.

I just tested, indeed very good results!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #10
aunty_helen wrote: post #5

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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