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0 pointsguidoism6y ago0 comments

I’m fairly confident that google books is a huge money loser for google. The only reason it’s still online is because there are people within google willing to stick their necks out to spend the money on it.

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BlueTemplar6y ago

Indeed, but for how long, considering the Google Books team itself seemingly wants to delete the ~100M books database ?

P.S.: Might be soon, considering that it was basically what Google was initially about, and one of the founders just resigned from Alphabet...

dredmorbius6y ago

Source on the deletion initiative?

BlueTemplar6y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694061

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BlueTemplar6y ago

Indeed, but for how long, considering the Google Books team itself seemingly wants to delete the ~100M books database ?

P.S.: Might be soon, considering that it was basically what Google was initially about, and one of the founders just resigned from Alphabet...

dredmorbius6y ago

Source on the deletion initiative?

BlueTemplar6y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694061

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