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CommonCrawl Reviews

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CommonCrawl mentions (90)

• Ask HN: How does one implement web plagiarism?

  Https://commoncrawl.org/ is a non-profit which offers a pre-crawled dataset. The specifics of individual tools probably vary. I imagine most tools would be based on academic datasets. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI

  Should the NYT not sue https://commoncrawl.org/ ? OpenAI just used the data from commoncrawl for training. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Indexing a Billion Pages

  What you’re likely referring to is Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Interview with Viktor Lofgren from Marginalia Search

  > ... a project called "Nutch" would allow web users to crawl the web themselves. Perhaps that promise is similar to the promises being made about "AI" today. The project did not turn out to be used in the way it was predicted (marketed), or even used by web users at all. Actually Nutch is used to produce the Common Crawl[0] and 60% of GPT-3's training data was Common Crawl[1], so in a way it is being used... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Search

  > Let's share the index as public data Common crawl[1] data has been in AWS for over a decade. [1]: https://commoncrawl.org. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Ecosia mentions (53)

• Concept of Anyfund: Gratitude Funds for Charity

  Another possibility for Anyfund could be to allocate its funds exclusively for charitable purposes. Maybe we could have 100% eco-friendly Anytype merch? Imagine the fascination of observing community-driven charitable endeavors and sustainable initiatives, reflecting our commitment to a nurturing & open future. This could be inspired by the "noble" apps, of which I've personally used Ecosia, where the act of using... Source: 10 months ago

• Why Firefox doesn't launch their own Private search engine ?

  - Ecosia - A search engine that uses 80% of its profits from ad revenue to support tree-planting projects. They publish their finances on a monthly basis - https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/. Source: 12 months ago

• Tulsa Earth Day Celebration at the Guthrie Green (Friday-Sunday)

  I literally just copy and pasted this information, but I for one am excited about Earth Day; I look forward to it every year. Also, since we're on this topic, ecosia.org is a search engine that plants trees with the ad revenue they generate (they're a carbon negative company!). Source: about 1 year ago

• Is this censorship or is the site just broken?

  If you go to ecosia.org or qwant.com on any mobile browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.,.) and search for ghandi you also get no results. Its only when the search query ends in ghandi, for example "ghanid date of birth" returns results fine. Source: about 1 year ago

• Microsoft is making it easier to block annoying autoplay videos in Edge

  DDG was caught allowing Microsoft/Bing trackers through a deal with Microsoft, use Startpage or Ecosia instead. Source: about 1 year ago