{"id":10626,"date":"2015-01-31T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2016-02-12T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:22:05","slug":"never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Trust a Corporation to Do a Library&rsquo;s Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/message\/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351\">Andy Baio<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenpressley\/status\/560883974609051649\">Rich Siegel<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/message\/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a-librarys-job-f58db4673351\"><p>For years, Google&rsquo;s mission included the <strong>preservation of the past<\/strong>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>In the last five years, starting around 2010, the shifting priorities of Google&rsquo;s management left these archival projects in limbo, or abandoned entirely.<\/p><p>After a series of redesigns, Google Groups is effectively dead for research purposes. The archives, while still online, have no means of searching by date.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The desire to preserve the past died along with <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/115831\/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead\/\">20% time<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/searchenginewatch.com\/sew\/news\/2096664\/google-closing-labs\">Google Labs<\/a>, and the spirit of haphazard experimentation.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Baio (via Rich Siegel): For years, Google&rsquo;s mission included the preservation of the past.[&#8230;]In the last five years, starting around 2010, the shifting priorities of Google&rsquo;s management left these archival projects in limbo, or abandoned entirely.After a series of redesigns, Google Groups is effectively dead for research purposes. The archives, while still online, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,1016,51,295,1127,96],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-datacide","tag-google","tag-history","tag-internet-archive","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13537,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/13537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}