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• 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

• A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI

  It's weird you're being downvoted, and it's amazing people are unaware of this. Almost every library in the world participated. https://books.google.com/. Source: 10 months ago

• A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI

  And debatable if google used pirated books, they already have books.google.com with 40m+ books already indexed in text. Did openAI and meta, and tons of others, almost certainly. Is this illegal, it's hard to say... I would no. Was it necessary to compete with google, absolutely, is it a net benefit for humanity, yes. For competition and lower barriers to entry I hope google wins the lawsuit. Source: 10 months ago

• Sources of reading material for more advanced practicioners.

  There are also many books that are available as ebooks or PDF files. Sites like https://www.scribd.com and https://books.google.com can provide material for you to read. The monster Amazon also has lots you can buy (often for less than what the printed version sells for), and they also have their "Kindle Unlimited" program where you pay a monthly subscription fee and then have full access to thousands if not... Source: 10 months ago

• "AI-generated books of nonsense are all over Amazon's bestseller lists"

  You might be surprised that Google Books is also filled with AI-generated books. Some of them are so obvious that starts with "As an AI Language model, ..". Source: 10 months ago

• Which non-21st century president has had the largest change in public perception since his time in office?

  "Clearly, Griffith believed it in his interest to have the president appear to legitimate the “history” in Birth. This explains both the special showing of the film at the White House and the quotations form Wilson's earlier historical work. An examination of the intertitles and what Wilson had actually written suggests, however, that Griffith was at the very least rather inexact in the quotations he used and that,... Source: 10 months ago

• Contracts

  Actually basic research (books.google.com or if you have lexis or westlaw) would show I'm right. I'm unsure what is wrong with you. Are you on drugs? Source: 11 months ago

• Interesting photo of Native Americans appearing genetically different

  Books.google.com Https://books.google.com › books Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Jean-Pierre Angenot — 2008 · Social Science Perhaps it is not surprising that in Asia, People of African origin have been known as Abexin, Abeixm, Abisi, Abyssinian, Habshi, and Habsie. Source: 11 months ago

• [TOMT][BOOK?] regal names for pets

  But have you tried a books.google.com search for it? Google has a lot of the actual text of books archived, and kind of searchable if you can hit on the right terms (it's not perfect though.). Source: 11 months ago

• Pre-twentieth century Introductions to Philosophy?

  If you go to Google Books, type in “Introduction to Philosophy,” and sort for 19th century, there are 28 pages of results. Some are irrelevant but most are not. Source: 12 months ago

• Inorganic chemistry 5th or 6th or 7th?

  See for yourself: https://books.google.com/. Source: 12 months ago

• [TOMT][BOOK] - a book about a girl and her old brother going hiking/camping. I think they get lost. The only scene I remember clearly is she find him dead sitting on a log, his mouth opens and a swarm of bees emerge. Cover had the word Tagart or similar. Read it around 2000’s but might be earlier.

  Thirdly, books.google.com can also get lucky sometimes. Source: 12 months ago

• App for scanning/digitizing a whole book?

  Many 18th century books are also already digitized. you may browse books.google.com and archive.org to see if a digitized copy already exists and save yourself the trouble. Source: 12 months ago

• Ajax with JQuery: 200 ok, but not "success"

  Var query = [formatted input from a form];var URL = "http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q="+query+"&start-index=1&max-results=5";$.ajax({ type: "GET", url: URL, dataType: "xml", success: function(data, status){ alert(status); }}); Currently, I just have the script alerting "success" if a response is received. If I use my script to send that query to a local page for testing, this... Source: about 1 year ago

• [Could you please help me find 3 different English grammar books that contain these 3 different images?]

  Nope, just a college student. Google images are very bad with words. Use Google Books (https://books.google.com/) instead. You can put quotation marks (") around the phrase you are looking for, so that Google matches the words exactly. Source: about 1 year ago

• YA Fantasy novel - heavy focus on dragons, female protagonist...

  Sure! So, just like you can do a Google image search, you can do a Google book search. Here's the url: https://books.google.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• [TOMT] [Book] 80's Kid's story collection, something like "The Holiday Ring"

  A books.google.com search might show it up too if you have a key phrase you can search for, and if it's been archived there. Source: about 1 year ago