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This is ridiculous. Google is not some opaque corporate entity (I mean, yes it IS, but...), it is made up of individuals, many of whom read this site. Google
by mcherm 1y ago
This is ridiculous.
Google is not some opaque corporate entity (I mean, yes it IS, but...), it is made up of individuals, many of whom read this site.
Google should offer to send (the public content from) their DB directly to The Internet Archive. It results in LESS overhead for Google than this attempt to scrape it, and results in better information.
- ndr 1y agoThey could offer the domain too to be honest.
- eamag 1y agoThe domain is still used in google maps "share" links, for example https://maps.app.goo.gl/<id>
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agosubdomain delegation isn't too hard to manage :)
- procaryote 1y agosecurity issue
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agosure, everything's a security issue when you don't pay attention to it :)
- cxr 1y agomaps.app.goo.gl and maps.google.com are exactly the same number of characters. Those links smack of the same mindset behind "Refactor to rewrite procedure A in terms of procedure B. 7 lines deleted; 17 lines added."
- mcherm 1y agoThey certainly could, but all I'm asking for here are things that SAVE money for Google. (They don't have to pay to support the scraping.)