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33 points·pollomost··7 comments

This feels spammy. There's been a pattern of posting these google-wrappers here over the last year. From multiple accounts, but very similar titles and domains.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=587490

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731096

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961822

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=962800 [dead]

What could possibly feel spammy about a shitty little site called ebooks-free-download.com?

This is by the same geniass who did that silly little website that pretends to generate PDFs from urls by secretly iframing a site that actually does it, the submission's been deleted but it was here -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1080755 http://html-pdf-convert.com/

This time he's just scraping google to get results.

Why is this better than using Google's "filetype:pdf" filter on your queries?

I think the site uses Google's filetype:pdf filter, tweaked:

* ebooks-free: http://ebooks-free-download.com/introduction-to-probability-...

* google pdf: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Introd...

You can use also MS Academics or CiteSeerX

Note the footer: "Powered by Google"

It's got a big 'download' button instead of a URL. Grrrreat!

It's not Ebook like the URL said.. it has a lot of other PDF... a PDF and an Ebook is not the same!

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