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Baidu blocks Google, Bing from scraping content amid demand for data used on AI projects (www.scmp.com)
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[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Good

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Not like it matters here but Baidu was a rip off of google in the first place

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

User generated content would still be valuable

[–] jaek@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You've actually got it backwards. The ranking algorithm (rankdex) developed by one of the engineers that founded Baidu was published in 1996, two years before pagerank. Some of Google's early patents actually cite the rankdex algo.

Not like it matters here

Cope