gwern comments on Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 May 2013 09:32:03PM 0 points [-]

Ideally we would have Google hits from the day before a product was officially killed, but the past is, alas, no longer accessible to us

Google kinda, sorta, lets you search the past, under "search tools." I think it filters pages by date of creation, but searches current text, so that "recent posts" type side bars pollute the results. And what is probably worse, it probably doesn't return dead pages.

Comment author: gwern 04 May 2013 10:52:53PM *  0 points [-]

It doesn't return dead pages, and the date-filtering is highly error-prone, I've found: while using it in searching for launch and shutdown dates, there were many 'leaks from the future', we could call them. (Articles from 2007 lamenting the shutdown of Google Reader...)