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by hackinthebochs 1096 days ago
Retain is not equivalent to undelete (making visible to everyone).
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It is in this case. They don't "need" the data themselves, they need Googlebot to see it to get traffic, which is their lifeblood both in general and for IPO.

Have you heard the recent popular saying that Googling things barely even works anymore unless you append reddit to the query, which tends to bring up actual information instead of SEO trash?

Arguably the perception of the size of their knowledgebase is more important than the actual size, at least when talking about the upcoming IPO.
If it’s not visible to other users or paying LLMs then it’s worthless. That’s what I’m getting at.
Strong incentive also exists to undelete.