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This is ridiculous.

Google is not some opaque corporate entity (I mean, yes it IS, but...), it is made up of individuals, many of whom read this site.

Google should offer to send (the public content from) their DB directly to The Internet Archive. It results in LESS overhead for Google than this attempt to scrape it, and results in better information.

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They could offer the domain too to be honest.

The domain is still used in google maps "share" links, for example

https://maps.app.goo.gl/<id>

subdomain delegation isn't too hard to manage :)

security issue

sure, everything's a security issue when you don't pay attention to it :)

maps.app.goo.gl and maps.google.com are exactly the same number of characters.

Those links smack of the same mindset behind "Refactor to rewrite procedure A in terms of procedure B. 7 lines deleted; 17 lines added."

They certainly could, but all I'm asking for here are things that SAVE money for Google. (They don't have to pay to support the scraping.)

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