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.
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.
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.
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
I'm not sure I've ever relied on google to tell me what a site like this had, when the site itself is fully indexed, as this one is. Freetext search over the metastate of title, author, format, date (when available) -seems to work.
On a related note, I think Anna's archive might be the last remaining bastion for books after library genesis got shut down recently. Is anyone aware of other alternatives?
Does google still link to lumendatabase.org (formerly chillingeffects) when results have been taken down due to a legal request?
Searching the web has changed:
- There are more walled gardens, so engines legally cannot enter some spaces
- There are more legal problems with data, so more things are not accessible
- to find stuff you have to check google, but also yandex, or kagi, or chatgpt
- I also check my own index for stuff https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
A question to the community: would it be a (legal) problem if I decided to download digital copies of the physical books I already have in my bookshelf? I was thinking on using Anna's Archive for that. Hobby project.
Google's march to irrelevance continues with full steam.
Go thing that Google hasn't been a part of my life for a while now. I use DuckDuck for search.
no problem, AA has a very good search bar.
Google also has deleted hundreds of videos on Youtube documenting Israel's crimes in Gaza. So did X: Remove thousands of videos and accounts documenting Israel's war crimes in Gaza. These companies are evil. Will always side with the strong and powerful.
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?
Google has already removed URLs from the first page of "search" results.
I was surprised that those pages showed up in book title searches at all. Makes sense to get rid of them, you don't want a search for a book to be topped by a link to pirate the book. The top-level domains still come up, and people who know they want to pirate a book can still find the site.
Oh wow just what I said would happen, happened... first libgen and z-lib after META trained its model with 70tb of torrented content and now Anna's library.
Meanwhile REAL human students and researchers lose access to acadeemic work
Wait so did Gemini train on Wikipedia etc.?
Isn't it a conflict of interest or something if their AI results prevent people from clicking on the websites Google's AI trained on?
Google search keeps getting less useful every day.
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Are they in ChatGPT and other LLM providers? No need for Google.
Anna's archive has already fulfilled G's needs (training Gemini) so now it's time to pretend it never existed ;)