Comment by xorsula1 12 days ago My guess is they detected being scraped and did this as preventive measure. 4 comments xorsula1 Reply Andrex 12 days ago My guess is they're cozier with publishers now than 20 years ago when they fought all the way to SCOTUS."Hey, remove search?""OK, it was costing money anyways." breppp 12 days ago my guess is that the copyright landscape changed due to AI training, and these publishers won't let Google use that data anymore adamnemecek 12 days ago The books are still there, it seems like the rankings have changed though. londons_explore 12 days ago If search gives you a preview with a few surrounding words, it is fairly simple to abuse search with quotation marks to extract bigger and bigger sections of the books, potentially till you have the whole book.
Andrex 12 days ago My guess is they're cozier with publishers now than 20 years ago when they fought all the way to SCOTUS."Hey, remove search?""OK, it was costing money anyways."
breppp 12 days ago my guess is that the copyright landscape changed due to AI training, and these publishers won't let Google use that data anymore adamnemecek 12 days ago The books are still there, it seems like the rankings have changed though.
londons_explore 12 days ago If search gives you a preview with a few surrounding words, it is fairly simple to abuse search with quotation marks to extract bigger and bigger sections of the books, potentially till you have the whole book.
My guess is they're cozier with publishers now than 20 years ago when they fought all the way to SCOTUS.
"Hey, remove search?"
"OK, it was costing money anyways."
my guess is that the copyright landscape changed due to AI training, and these publishers won't let Google use that data anymore
The books are still there, it seems like the rankings have changed though.
If search gives you a preview with a few surrounding words, it is fairly simple to abuse search with quotation marks to extract bigger and bigger sections of the books, potentially till you have the whole book.