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by miki123211 1669 days ago
Friends have been telling me it's generally easier to find stuff on z-lib than it is on libgen.

Does it have a better search engine? Does it have more books than libgen? Are they just wrong?

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From my experiences with it, in LibGen you have to search exactly what you want. A simple typo ruins it. Z-library is a better in that regards, so typos don't really ruin the search, allowing you to find stuff more easily.
I don't know whether they have a different dataset of books, but the search engine is definitely vastly superior. Not only in looks, but most importantly in terms of results.
I think Z-lib indexes libgen's recent uploads much faster, so it makes a difference for newer books.