I'm not sure I've ever relied on google to tell me what a site like this had, when the site itself is fully indexed, as this one is. Freetext search over the metastate of title, author, format, date (when available) -seems to work.

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npteljes a day ago | parent | next [-]

Web searches like Google are great when searching for not exact terms, like synonyms for example. I have never encountered a website that has a search capability like that. Google finds the song "Million voices" by Otto Knows, from the search query "a a a a ah ah ah ah dance song".

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alex1138 a day ago | parent [-]

Fantastic!

Now can we PLEASE have the boolean operators back? Especially now that Google+ kicked the bucket?

	▲	npteljes a day ago \| parent [-]
		No, I'm afraid they can't have it being too useful.

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n1xis10t 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They don’t have full text search of document contents though do they? I know Google wouldn’t have this for AA pages either, just curious

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ggm 2 days ago | parent [-]

Good point. So there is definitely a social utility in search over text which google does have, for the trove it scanned, hands and cats-pawprints and all.

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n1xis10t 2 days ago | parent [-]

I’m pretty sure Google indexing pages from Anna’s archive would only get metadata, because AA doesn’t have the full text of the books on those pages. I think to get the full text you have to download the torrents, and I don’t think Google was doing that.

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ggm 2 days ago | parent [-]

No, thats more meta's trick. and they were "only doing it for the articles" not the pictures. I think. I dunno..

	▲	bigiain a day ago \| parent [-]
		They were doing it for the videos too, but only for "personal use"... https://www.wired.com/story/meta-claims-downloaded-porn-at-c...