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by _annum 634 days ago
Thank you for linking to this – before noticing the date, I was initially disappointed to see the gifs were merely canonical examples and assumed the project was new/minor or abandoned.

As caretakers of the most comprehensive world database, Google is in a unique position to enrich the global commons. Projects like these are a universal humanitarian gift. It's unfortunate that such benevolent endeavours exist in the shadow of the irresponsible and widespread degradation of search result quality (with unknown second-order effects on public consciousness) and the panoptical Adsense surveillance super vortex.