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@andybaio @benbrown separately, i feel like google deliberately under-indexes the Internet Archive in order to reduce the massive amounts of takedown requests they would inevitably get. Virtually everything on there is stuff that would get pulled on any other site, these days.

@anildash @benbrown Much of the Internet Archive is indexed but ranks horribly. You basically can’t get relevant pages from the IA in results unless you add “site:archive.org”, but that’s the same thing you have to do with Reddit, MetaFilter, or any other massive old archive of content. I don’t think it’s about copyright, they’re just terrible at ranking old content these days. The SEOs won.

@andybaio@xoxo.zone @anildash@me.dm hey congrats to the SEOs!!! someone has to win and someone has to lose and I'm glad we finally know the results.