[srean]

https://nautil.us/the-great-silence-237510

One of my all time favourite short stories, with or without intelligent parrots.

Time for me to read it again. This is the Arecibo story, don't miss if you haven't read it before.

"You be good".

Strangely enough, was having a lot of difficulty coaxing google to fetch this link.

[kridsdale1]

I’m not sure if you used “Classic Google” or not, but I put the quoted quote in to Google AI Mode (disclaimer; I am one of its developers) and got a full description of the story with links to online hostings of the full text in under 1 second. Not the same URL as your result, and I don’t know the IP validity of the hosting result pages I got, though.

I recalled (once I was reminded of the author) that I read this originally in one of his Anthologies. I strongly recommend to everyone who likes reading and thinking to buy both of his books!

[srean]

I got some of those links and links to the summary of the story.

But I did not want a summary (why massacre such a beautiful story *), and neither the later links (pretty bad visual presentation of the story), but the Nautilus link in particular.

I think that's where I had read it first on the web, by far the best layout compared to the other links.

Even a few years ago the Nautilus link used to be the canonical (first) result.

* If I want Michelangelo's David summarised, I think I would mention 'summary' explicitly.