An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.

  • @geekworking
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    461 year ago

    Isn’t crawling and scraping content what Google and every other search engine has been doing since day one?

    • @kenyard
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      41 year ago

      I’m guessing previously they indexed the data and didn’t actually use it. Nowadays they’re using it directly themselves. You could argue previously they were making money from Google ads but google was always ad free I believe. Results had sponsors for sure but that wasn’t linked to your data

      • @Cordoro
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        81 year ago

        Indexing is using it. They’d use the content of the page to decide how best to index it for search.

    • Brkdncr
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      41 year ago

      Yes. It’s almost silly that they had to say it. I bet lawyers were involved.

    • @kenyard
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      -41 year ago

      I’m guessing previously they indexed the data and didn’t actually use it. Nowadays they’re using it directly themselves. You could argue previously they were making money from Google ads but google was always ad free I believe. Results had sponsors for sure but that wasn’t linked to your data

      • @Stuka
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        41 year ago

        Google has always been scraping data

    • @kenyard
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      -71 year ago

      I’m guessing previously they indexed the data and didn’t actually use it. Nowadays they’re using it directly themselves. You could argue previously they were making money from Google ads but google was always ad free I believe. Results had sponsors for sure but that wasn’t linked to your data