• Venator@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    Google made thier cached pages inaccessible though, better to check the way back machine.

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      21 hours ago

      No I mean the Google books thing. You can search through anything even old catalogs (God knows why they felt the need to scan old catalogs)

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        20 hours ago

        God knows why they felt the need to scan old catalogs

        For the AI training data probably 😅

        Also they started doing it way back in 2005, when they were just doing whatever thier engineers thought would be useful and ensure they kept market share of search. (before Prabhakar Raghavan took over)