Google, a Search Company, Has Made Its Internet Archive Impossible to Search
(Vice Motherboard): http://motherboard.vice.com/read/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search?trk_source=recommended In other words, if you want to know what people in the mid 1980s thought about William Gibson's Neuromancer--in which the author coined "cyberspace"--or how the internet responded to the rising popularity of grunge, you can't just search against Google's entire Usenet archive for posts within a specific month or year. "Advanced searches within specific groups appear to be working, but that's hardly useful for any form of research--be it casual or academic," Rehn said. Was the change done on purpose, or was it a mistake? No one knows. Motherboard emailed Google twice, and did not hear back. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
