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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 #67

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They’re… yes. Yes, that’s exactly what they have done and continue to do. Are you familiar with it?

That phrase is Google's mission statement.

I thought their mission statement was "Don't be evil", until they shortened it for practicality to just "Be evil". It's certainly how they've been behaving in recent years.

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

#92
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That phrase is Google's mission statement.

I thought their mission statement was "Don't be evil", until they shortened it for practicality to just "Be evil". It's certainly how they've been behaving in recent years.

It's now "Don't be evil*"

* Subject to terms and conditions, lack of evil not be available in all regions.

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

#93
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That phrase is Google's mission statement.

I thought their mission statement was "Don't be evil", until they shortened it for practicality to just "Be evil". It's certainly how they've been behaving in recent years.

Motto, not mission statement.

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

#94
post #85

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

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…

Publicly traded corporations are machines whose only lawful purpose is to make money. They are legally obligated to be sociopathic systems. They aren't evil like an axe murderer, they're evil like a gasoline fire. They may be useful when properly controlled, but they're certainly never worth defending in the way you seem to feel the need to

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

#95
I am not exaggerating when i say i completely stopped using google for searches that google might take offence to. Serial numbers, business phone numbers, and of course books and papers all ho through real search engines. Currently, those are yandex as my main goto with brave as a backup.

I couldn't care less what google does because i don't use it.

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

#96
post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Publicly traded corporations are machines whose only lawful purpose is to make money. They are legally obligated to be sociopathic systems. They aren't evil like an axe murderer, they're evil like a gasoline fire. They may be useful when properly controlled, but they're certainly never worth defending in the way you seem to feel the need to

>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.

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

#98
post #26

And still it’s the top result in Google if one searches for Anna’s archive. How is it that that search result hasn’t been removed?

Presumably, the home page doesn't contain any copyright violations. This is only DMCA stuff targetting individual links.

well if publisher DMCA request to google then I don't know why people get mad about

its still piracy at the end of the day and publisher have right to license etc, people mad about this maybe dont have to deal this as a business

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

#99
post #64

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Wow you're right. Locking dance moves and videos. Weere you expecting to see padlocks or doorlocks or what?

I expected to be “personalized”. I’m definitely more into programming than dancing. I see 0 personalization tbh. And I tried a few different peoples phones.

Oh I see, locking in the programming sense, yes. Either not every search term is personalized for your context, or else this particular search is being applied to some other demographic. But that's weird because "locking" doesn't also show door, windows, filing cabinets.

Anyway if you search for "programming locking" you get relevant results.

Google didn't used to do this. Anyone got a rough idea when this started?

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

#100
post #46

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?

actually yes. and we re talking about high quality information, not random comments
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