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and that's why I left all my 360 games on top of the TV all these years. we rotate them out as coasters just to make sure they're still getting used.
One of my first jobs in IT I worked in a local newspaper - I thought I wanted to be a journalist turns out it's boring. Anyway we had all the old archived papers on a dvd and someone used it as a coaster and erased about 10 years worth of files. Naturally there were zero backups, so that data was just gone. Fantastic.
Fortunately the local library has backups but they're on microfiche, so not particularly convenient. I think Google might have scanned them now though so they're probably archived again.
Google made thier cached pages inaccessible though, better to check the way back machine.
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)
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)