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Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 1 day ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Google has removed dozens of new Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the United States. Unlike typical DMCA takedowns, the removals were triggered by a dated court order that was not enforced for several years. This appears to be one of the first times Google has deindexed an entire pirate site in the U.S. based on a 'site blocking' style injunction.

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 9 points 19 hours ago

Meanwhile on DDG

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good thing Google has removed links to this site I had never previously heard of, now I'll definitely not end up on this Sci Hub ^by^ ^accident^

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

It's a good thing Google posts the DMCA order so I can see what the URL is so I can never visit it ^by^ ^accident^

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago

Oh, wow, nobody now could ever guess what the URL is.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Que Viva Elbakyan! It works pretty well: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=sci-hub&ia=web

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe it will drive more people to alternative search engines.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

All we need are a few .onion mirrors

TBH if there are no .onion mirrors, it's not a serious anti-censorship project

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

We need more I2P not Tor

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm genuinely contemplating paying for kagi at this point. Only one I haven't heard people (fairly) talking shit about recently.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Would recommend. Been using it for a couple years now, and it actually feels gross when I end up on Google.

You will hear shit from a small group on Lemmy about how they also use Yandex for search results, but it's a pretty hollow argument that keeps being used as some big "gotcha". But if that's a turn off for you, it is what it is.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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[–] chocrates@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's possible. Search engines are just big reference databases.
They have crawlers that search the web based on links to each other and then save metadata about the pages.

There are some projects already that you can use.

The problem is the data, if everyone of us have to build it ourselves it's going to be tedious, and more importantly biased to however you are scraping.

[–] saplyng@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

I've paid for kagi for a few years, I would definitely recommend it!