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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 philipallstar »

jdpage wrote: post #140
deaux wrote: post #96

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>Publicly traded corporations are machines whose only lawful purpose is to make money. Hey, so this isn't the case at all, publicly traded companies are under no lawful obligation to focus only on making money. Fiduciary duty does not mean this in any way. It's a common misconception whose perpetuation is harmful. Let's stop doing it.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

It's not "a system". Each company is run by different people, and is under different pressures, and makes different decisions. Monolithing that is silly.

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

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Post by jdpage »

philipallstar wrote: post #141
jdpage wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

It's not "a system". Each company is run by different people, and is under different pressures, and makes different decisions. Monolithing that is silly.

Each company is a system, though. And they exhibit certain behaviors common to their type.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

mptest wrote: post #86
arjie wrote: post #85

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It's not delisted. Anna's Archive is huge. The fact that Google participates in an entirely voluntary transparency log that gives you this information should illustrate to you where they stand on the issue of their needing to be compliant to the DMCA. It isn't clear to me why online communities constantly invent fan fiction of evil enemies when organizations merely comply with a reasonable interpretation of the law o…

no one , and i mean no one , has to invent the history of evil corporations doing evil things. Climate change? Cigarettes?, shit let's go modern. CZ? SBF? if it's not clear to you may i suggest with the upmost respect that you read surveillance capitalism by zuboff (a successor to manufactured consent in my humble opinion). I guess my question is where do you get the confidence or belief these companies are doing any…

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

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Post by n1xis10t »

zzo38computer wrote: post #61
n1xis10t wrote: post #11

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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

Is there a good search engine which does not execute any JavaScripts on files that it scans? (This is not the same as excluding web pages that use JavaScripts (I have seen some search engines that do this); I still want to be able to search for them, but I do not want the search queries (or the summaries of the results) to include anything that is only displayed due to JavaScripts.)

I haven’t paid attention, so I don’t know. I know that Marginalia lets you downrank or exclude sites that use javascript or something like that, but that isn’t what you’re looking for. You might try Mojeek. I’m sorry I know so little about this.

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

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Post by n1xis10t »

giamma wrote: post #116
thaumasiotes wrote: post #102

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> Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/1436/united-st... That's a 230-page pdf. Do you have a more specific citation?

I passed the PDF to Claude and asked it to check if there is any part of the document that states that google deprioritizes good search results in favor of advertisement. Here is the output from Claude: Yes, the document contains highly significant factual findings by the Court regarding how Google deprioritized organic search results in favor of advertising. The most significant findings: The Court documents that th…

All that claude said there was that they made people interact with the blue links less, by using AI and stuff.

None of that confirmed the claim that they hide the most relevent results past page 3. I guess I have to read the thing myself

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

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Post by gosub100 »

extraduder_ire wrote: post #134
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 started using yandex when searching for bittorrent infohashes (to find other trackers it might be indexed on) after google, bing, and duckduckgo all stopped returning good results a few years ago. I know there's multiple full string matches out there, but all I can see on the first few pages are very short partial matches from various blockchain explorers like etherscan. I don't know if this was an intentional deci…

That is brilliant, to search for the hash values. Thanks

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

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Post by whatamidoingyo »

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.

Funny you say this. Just two days ago, my wife was telling me a little history about her country, and suggested a movie based on those events. I couldn't find it on Google, DDG, Bing, Brave, etc. So I tried it on Yandex and it appeared as a top 3 result.

Btw, DDG basically looked exactly like Google. And now they have "sponsored" items...

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

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Post by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t »

cookiengineer wrote: post #73
nullbyte808 wrote: post #49

Man I need to get around to downloading the z-archive torrents before annas archive is taken down. If I eliminate large PDFs and non english books I think I can fit it on two 32 TB drives with BTRFS z-std compression max setting. https://annas-archive.org/torrents

Let me know of those efforts, I wanna have an English/German/French backup of the archive, too. But as you said HDDs and filesystems are the problem, really. Maybe I'll have to build a torrent splitter or something, because the UIs of all torrent clients are just not built for that.

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