Google has removed dozens of new Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the United States. Unlike typical DMCA takedowns, the removals were triggered by a dated court order that was not enforced for several years. This appears to be one of the first times Google has deindexed an entire pirate site in the U.S. based on a ‘site blocking’ style injunction.
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3 monthsGood thing Google has removed links to this site I had never previously heard of, now I’ll definitely not end up on this Sci Hub by accident
- tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
It’s a good thing Google posts the DMCA order so I can see what the URL is so I can never visit it by accident
- 3 months
I’m genuinely contemplating paying for kagi at this point. Only one I haven’t heard people (fairly) talking shit about recently.
- saplyng@piefed.socialEnglish3 months
I’ve paid for kagi for a few years, I would definitely recommend it!
Would recommend. Been using it for a couple years now, and it actually feels gross when I end up on Google.
You will hear shit from a small group on Lemmy about how they also use Yandex for search results, but it’s a pretty hollow argument that keeps being used as some big “gotcha”. But if that’s a turn off for you, it is what it is.
- chocrates@piefed.worldEnglish3 months
It’s possible. Search engines are just big reference databases.
They have crawlers that search the web based on links to each other and then save metadata about the pages.There are some projects already that you can use.
The problem is the data, if everyone of us have to build it ourselves it’s going to be tedious, and more importantly biased to however you are scraping.
Me too. I used it by default during allowed trial period and found it to be pretty good.
- 3 months
All we need are a few .onion mirrors
TBH if there are no .onion mirrors, it’s not a serious anti-censorship project
- 3 months
Different designs, different strengths, different threat models
- chocrates@piefed.worldEnglish3 months
Duck duck go is still partially backed by Google right? It’s a “meta” search engine?
You are correct, it has multiple sources but bing is the primary one.
- 2 months
