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  • Google's march to irrelevance continues with full steam.
  • 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.
    by ggm
  • 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 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.

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