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Google for the Physical World (planitstar.com)
5 points by Veloc1te on March 23, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


I tried first to search for motorcycle trips. "motorcycle" search returned suggestion for Norway. Clicked on Norway -> "Nothing found here yet!". So why suggest it? "France" suggests Brunei, "Germany" suggests Algeria.

The interface is weird: enter does not work on search box, browser back does not work.

And then the content is actually copy pasted from wikipedia articles for the regions. I am confused. What is this?


I first thought this was happening:

https://ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol


Haha...this was a good one. We do have indexing robots in the form of Google maps Street view cars though.


From 2002! Almost twenty years old


And sadly I probably remembered it from about that time...


Just a matter of time.




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