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Google Play Books mentions (106)

• Tell HN: Correct Result for "Google Books" in Bing but Not in Google

  Searching for "google books" in google leads to https://books.google.com/ which no longer allows you to read any of your books. https://play.google.com/books is the site to read your purchased books now. Google search does not show https://play.google.com/books in its results at all. Thought it was some weird personalization quirk, but seems others have had the same issue:... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Engineer Bob Novak talks about UFO propulsion and anti-gravity in a 1963 recording

  Please use google https://google.com , https://groups.google.com , news.google.com/newspapers, books.google.com, scholar.google.com , https://archive.org https://yandex.com (the only image reverse search which actually works, google's got broken). Source: 5 months ago

• Google Only Giving Book Results After Update

  I have no idea why, but ever since this new update, Chrome has become completely unusable. Every single search I make only retrieves books.google.com links. Nothing near relevant to what I want. I am not sure how to fix this issue. All help is greatly appreciated! Source: 5 months ago

• The Battle over Books3 Could Change AI Forever

  Like these guys? https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• The Curious Case of Jeff Nadu

  Now I think the “Jeff reads Wikipedia” criticism is a tad bit too far, but the problem of his reliance on books (that we should definitely not read) and some surface-level sources manifests itself perfectly in that video. Ralph Natale made an ass out of himself by publishing that book. It contains untrue stories that take away from his credibility and “mob resume”, and for some bizarre reason, didn’t include... Source: 8 months ago

Archive.org mentions (8505)

• Wayback Machine Homepage is missing from Google results

  I have https://archive.org as second result, sep11... Is also the first for me. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Top 7 Free Unlimited Video Hosting Websites in 2023

  Internet Archive is best known for its Wayback Machine. But registered users also get 250GB of free storage for video uploads and other media. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Google Search Drops Cache Link from Search Results

  I went to the google search page and put in the URL with the cache: prefix. Eg "cache:http://archive.org/". This is now broken. Existing cache entries still exist, but unfortunately unless you know the URL it is inaccessible. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• A periodic table of visualization methods

  If you didn't already know of archiving websites, you're one of today's lucky ten thousand! See https://archive.org :). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• I'm a total newby to Mennonite culture in general and I don't want to be disrespectful.

  The Mennonite Hymnal has many hymns from the Mennonite tradition that your in-laws may (or, to be honest, may not) know. You can borrow it from archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/mennonitehymnal0000unse/. Source: 4 months ago