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Privacy or not I'm starting to find things on ddg that google has been filtering. I found out through comments on hn that 8chan was backup under a new name: 8

• the_only_law 6y ago
  Googles filtering is so weird. I have a bad habit of buying old hardware without checking if the documentation had been made available on the web. Recently I found myself desperate for any information on a price of hardware i had gotten. I was swapping out all sorts of queries woth different keywords hoping to find a manual. I was able to find some marketing material which was helpful, albeit barely. Eventually I had exhausted the search results for most pf my queries, gave up and assumed that it was simply lost to time and I was out of luck. Eventually I went back to the sales paper I found. Going to the site it was hosted on, a Lithuanian reseller. I translated the page, eventually finding a direct link to a user manual on the exact same page as the sales paper I had found. The document was in English, contained important words from my queries (such as the product name, company, "user manual" etc. The document was at the same path as the sales paper too. I hace no idea why Google found the sales paper but not the manual. Unfortunately the manual still wasn't what I was looking for exactly but it was a hell of a lot better than what I could get from Google's results.