• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    No I mean the Google books thing. You can search through anything even old catalogs (God knows why they felt the need to scan old catalogs)

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      1 day ago

      God knows why they felt the need to scan old catalogs

      For the AI training data probably 😅

      Also they started doing it way back in 2005, when they were just doing whatever thier engineers thought would be useful and ensure they kept market share of search. (before Prabhakar Raghavan took over)