Google Play Books VS Wayback Machine

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

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

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: 6 months ago

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

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

I also use the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

For your course idk, but if rly dh, go to https://web.archive.org/ this is called way back machine which is used to find older version of websites. Just enter nyp.edu.sg into the search bar and select the date. Source: about 1 year ago

Rule #5 - #5: Don't link to bad websites. Use archived versions: Avoid linking directly to tabloids or hateful websites. Please use the Wayback Machine or Archive.is. Source: about 1 year ago

For those sites that have blocked the service, there's also the Wayback Machine at Archive.org. Source: about 1 year ago

In a pinch you can get access to gated Chron articles thru the Wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/. Source: about 1 year ago