Google Dataset Search returns zero results for 24 hours, users blame AI scrapers
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-16
Google Dataset Search has returned no results for roughly 24 hours — even suggested queries like "artificial intelligence" yield no matches. The service, launched in 2018, helps researchers find public datasets. One user joked that AI companies at scale may have exhausted it hunting for training data.
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