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To index the web, you generally do make a copy of it. Google has a huge number of books scanned, too.
by skybrian 3y ago
To index the web, you generally do make a copy of it.
Google has a huge number of books scanned, too.
- pinko 3y agoYeah, I hadn't thought about their abandoned effort to scan every book and archived newspaper in the world in a while, but I bet they're regretting now that they didn't finish. A non-trivial amount of that physical media has been tossed or degraded by underfunded libraries since then. And it's more valuable to them now that it ever was.
- TowerTall 3y ago“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
- compootr 3y agohttps://archive.ph/rQ7Zb https://archive.ph/rQ7Zb