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I missed it -- why did Google decide to purge the documents in the first place? That can't be that short on disk space, can they?
by eps 15y ago
I missed it -- why did Google decide to purge the documents in the first place? That can't be that short on disk space, can they?
- andrewtbham 15y agoYeh, What happened to organizing the world's information? I guess that's archive.org's job.
- maxerickson 15y agoThey likely do not want to maintain the interface, or the integration of the interface into the overall Google groups interface.
- Dylan16807 15y agoI'm sure the have copies laying around if it's only a TB. But I'm sure google's goal was to shut down a service to cut costs and complexity.
- jcrites 15y agoIndeed. The price to keep the information is peanuts. Take Amazon S3 (at its highest price point, <= 1 TiB): http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ ($0.125 per GB) * (1 terabyte) = 128 U.S. dollars per month. I'm surprised Google doesn't want to keep the data available in order to data mine.