Google Search is still one of the most powerful, reliable products on the web, thanks to a smart algorithm and the sheer brute-force quantity of data that Google pulls off the web on a daily basis. The power of Google Search rests on its crawl being bigger and faster than anyone else. But there's a problem — or at least there is if you're a researcher. Once Google has collected that data, it's not interested in sharing. It makes sense as a business play (you wouldn't want to do Bing any favors), but it cuts researchers off from one of the most powerful stockpiles of web data we have.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4043374/common-crawl-going-after-google-on-a-non-profit-budget
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