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Google, a Search Company, Has Made Its Internet Archive Impossible to Search
For well over a decade, Google has maintained one of the internet’s most important historical archives—a collection of over 800 million messages from discussion groups dating back to 1981. And much to the chagrin of online researchers, the company has been doing a really bad job. In December, users discovered they could no longer search for posts across the archive by date. Google, a search engine, had made its archive impossible to search.
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Two things. One, the headline is whiny. There is a difference between ‘impossible to search’ and ‘the monotonic search operators appear to be broken.’ Two, the article makes it out as if Google sneaked up on Dejanews and stole the Usenet Archive. If Google hadn’t stepped up the way they did, and made it broadly available, nobody would’ve. Google may screw up, they may not genuflect adequately for their non-paying users, but they’re not just the curator, they’re the museum as well. Anyone else standing by, waiting for their shot?