Anna's Archive是一个专注于搜寻“影子图书馆”的开源搜索引擎，这些图书馆通常包含被盗版和免费分享的付费或有门槛内容，尤其针对书籍等文学材料。谷歌在其透明度报告中披露，已从搜索引擎中移除了近7.5亿个指向Anna's Archive的链接，以回应版权持有者的要求。尽管Anna's Archive本身不 hosting 任何盗版内容，仅作为搜索工具，但其链接因链接到盗版资源而成为版权方主要针对的目标。该平台自2022年秋季上线以来，已成为谷歌接受链接移除请求最多的网站之一。随着元宇宙公司Meta被发现使用此类平台发现的内容训练AI模型，Anna's Archive在关于AI训练、合理使用和版权法的法律争议中，正日益受到关注。

🔍 **Anna's Archive是搜寻“影子图书馆”的搜索引擎：** 该平台旨在聚合和索引通常包含盗版书籍等文学作品的在线资源库，用户可以通过它找到网络上分散的“影子图书馆”内容，但它本身并不储存任何文件。

📉 **谷歌大规模移除相关链接：** 根据谷歌的透明度报告，已从其搜索结果中删除了近7.49亿个指向Anna's Archive的URL。这些移除请求主要来自版权持有者，如大型出版社和作者，旨在限制用户访问盗版内容。

🎯 **高频被针对的平台：** 尽管Anna's Archive上线时间不长（2022年秋季），但其关联域名已成为谷歌收到链接移除请求最多的前三名。这表明版权方正积极采取措施，试图阻止其在搜索引擎上的可见性。

💡 **AI训练内容争议焦点：** 近期，Meta被发现利用从Anna's Archive等平台发现的内容来训练其AI模型，这使得Anna's Archive在关于AI训练、合理使用和版权法律的讨论中处于风口浪尖，预示着其未来将获得更多关注。

Have you ever heard of Anna's Archive? No? Well, then, that's good news for copyright holders. They don't want you to know about Anna's Archive, and they're making sure Google helps keep it that way.

Google has taken down a whopping 749 million links to Anna's Archive from its search engine, according to the company's own transparency report, and as first reported by copyright and digital rights outlet TorrentFreak.

The 749 million confirmed URL removals is actually slightly lower than the 784 million link removal requests that Google received. According to TorrentFreak, those denied requests were mostly due to Google not actually indexing the requested URL in its search engine in the first place.

What is Anna's Archive?

Anna's Archive is an open-source search engine for "shadow libraries," or online libraries made up of usually paid or paywalled content that's been pirated and uploaded for free. It's basically a Pirate Bay, but for books and other literary material.

The takedown requests are mostly from copyright holders, like book publisher Penguin Random House. However, more than 1,000 different publishers and even authors themselves have submitted takedown requests to Google for Anna's Archive links.

The Anna's Archive platform itself is just a search engine. It does not host any of the pirated material. It simply helps users find material elsewhere on the internet.

In fact, Anna's Archive and the three domain names the platform lives on — annas-archive.se, annas-archive.org, and annas-archive.li — are the top three most-targeted URLs for Google takedown requests from copyright holders, Torrent Freak reported.

As TorrentFreak points out, Anna's Archive makes up a whopping 5 percent of all 15.1 billion takedown requests to Google since the search giant first started publishing its transparency report in May 2012. 

The sheer number of takedown requests targeting Anna's Archive is even more incredible when you consider that the platform only launched in the fall of 2022.

While copyright holders would like to keep Anna's Archive out of Google search, its likely that internet users will soon become much more familiar with the platform. Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, for example, was recently found to be using pirated content discovered through platforms like Anna's Archive to train the company's AI models.

As a legal battle plays out over AI training, fair use, and copyright law, Anna's Archive will no doubt find itself in a much brighter spotlight.