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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by freejazz on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:55PM (#39023474)
It'd be a good point if it wasn't for the fact that search engines didn't exist until google, because of technology, and that courts didn't need to consider the issue until then. So where does your point get us? We are here now.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by scheeseman486 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:26AM (#39023626)
Search engines are an index, which have existed for centuries.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by bawolff on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:49AM (#39023757)
When i was in university, i remember there was this humanities professor who had a concordance for the iliad on his shelf. As a CS person it was so cool to see the ancient version of a search engine.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by Piskvorrr on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:17AM (#39029722)
"search engines didn't exist until google" - you might want to, uh, google that
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by tanseydavid on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @07:01PM (#39035459)
The post you are replying to is poorly-worded.

I think the post is making reference to the "thing" which made Google stand out in a sea of existing search engines.

"Using the idea of relevancy, they built Google in a way that - in comparison to other search engines at the time - was simply better at connecting users with more pertinent results.

"A query typed in Google provided more utility and relevancy than did Excite, Yahoo and other search engines.

"To put it simply, Google had a superior product.

https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/125-why-google-won.h....

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by bawolff on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @08:26PM (#39036287)
Why? I dont see any way the ranking algorithm would affect this discussion, and if it did, i think old style (ranking based on keywords) would make the comparison slightly better than google (pagerank) style search engines.
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