Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results • Hacker News Board

pessimizer wrote: post #31

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.

No matter what my chosen brand of chatbot is, it can't help but hallucinate between 25% and 90% of the links it offers me. If it's not it's just proxying a google search for you itself.

Browser based iOS usage of ChatGPT, by chance?

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

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Post by nine_k » Wed, Nov 05, 2025, 3:16 AM UTC

agluszak wrote: post #13

Anna's archive has already fulfilled G's needs (training Gemini) so now it's time to pretend it never existed ;)

Did Anna's Archive also organize much of the world's information and made it universally accessible, for some time?

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

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Post by nine_k » Wed, Nov 05, 2025, 3:19 AM UTC

mtillman wrote: post #38

chneu wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been playing around with a variety of search engines such as Kagi, Startpage, Ecosia, DDG. All of them are better than google in finding relevant results. Lol Google is way too "personalized".

Google hides the most relevant results on the 3rd page. It was confirmed in trial disclosures a few months ago. Their concern isn’t public search.

Seems to not be empirically true.

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

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Post by nullbyte808 » Wed, Nov 05, 2025, 3:23 AM UTC

https://annas-archive.org

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

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Post by nullbyte808 » Wed, Nov 05, 2025, 3:27 AM UTC

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

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

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Post by bad_username » Wed, Nov 05, 2025, 3:32 AM UTC

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.

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