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> There are 100,000s of resources [...] major blow for information storage Thats a very small fraction of all the resources. > It is obvious that the next FTP
by tln 7y ago
> There are 100,000s of resources [...] major blow for information storage
Thats a very small fraction of all the resources.
> It is obvious that the next FTP related headline we see from Google is when (not, if) they drop FTP links from all Google search results. There's no point them listing FTP urls in the results if their own browser can't connect to them.
This is a worthy concern, for sure. Although how do you know they haven't already done this? Do you have a search that shows ftp: urls?
> The internet started off as a wonderful limitless information sharing platform, now it's just a shopping mall controlled by corporates.
I'm trying to think of the period when the internet wasn't driven by corporate interests. Before the dot com boom, I suppose? When newsgroups thrived, and email servers roamed free without spam? That was fun but theres a fuckton more information on the internet now.
- jsnell 7y ago> Do you have a search that shows ftp: urls? Sure, searching for "rfc 1337 inurl:ftp" returns FTP urls for the top four results for me.
- tln 7y agoThanks
- derefr 7y agoI wonder if any FTP was spoken by the spider to discover those resources, or whether those are just opaque FTP links discovered embedded in HTTP resources, that were not crawled further.
- jsnell 7y agoThey're crawled, and the full content is indexed. (You can see a text snippet, and some of the results aren't actually RFC 1337 but other RFCs referring to it).
- tln 7y agoYes, google has a cache of some FTP links, as found by GPs query. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TaTfcCqtrRwJ:ftp://ftp.scc.kit.edu/pub/rfc/bcp/bcp159.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TaTfcCq...