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by speedplane 3146 days ago
The core issue with Google today is that they've backed away from their mission of "organizing the world's information". They killed Google books, Google scholar is an afterthought, and most results either point to wikipedia or spam. They are definitely falling behind.
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icebraining 3146 days ago
They killed Google books

What does this mean?

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speedplane 3145 days ago
Google books is done. Yes, the website is up, but they aren't scanning new books and gave up on the backlog. Try it yourself, go look for any book published since 2016.
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icebraining 3145 days ago
https://books.google.pt/books?id=Dg1sCQAAQBAJ&printsec=front...

https://books.google.pt/books?id=iVQyCwAAQBAJ&printsec=front...

https://books.google.pt/books?id=HHfEDAAAQBAJ&printsec=front...

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Klathmon 3145 days ago
Wasn't there a large lawsuit that stopped that one?
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speedplane 3145 days ago
Nope, Google won.
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marcosdumay 3145 days ago
That's the most unsettling part. They got a monopoly on online book previews, and abandoned it.
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