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Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results
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- Authors
- Ben Schoon, Abner Li, Andrew Romero
- Published
- Sep 11 2024
- Word count
- 352 words
I just hope that this “partnership” is very very good for TIA. I don’t trust a Google agenda one bit. TIA is essential for a ton of research and fact-checking. I don’t want Google owning it, being able to influence it, or able to shutter it.
100% agreed, but a partnership that lets Google throw IA some money to fund lawsuits is also beneficial for Google. There's a non-0 chance that a ruling against IA's scanning/lending has very adverse effects for Google's own scanning and indexing efforts.
It would be nice if there was some assurance this does not lead down the road of being utterly dependent on Google, but I'd still take that over complete and utter loss of IA as a whole. Having Microsoft do something similiar with Bing would definitely help in that vein.
I didn't expect to see this partnership but this has been in the works for at least a couple of months since Google removed its cached pages functionality completely earlier this year and there has been speculation about this.
Here's the direct link to the post from the Internet Archive regarding this announcement.
I find this timing interesting. Google is going through a second round of defending against antitrust litigation. They used to have google cache linked in search specifically for this but it was shuttered earlier this year. Is linking out or TIA part of a diversification to help make them look less like a monopoly?
This literally happened to me today. It linked me to a book (which I was trying to look up a fact from so it was relevant. I borrowed it for an hour to look up my fact and moved on