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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Project Gutenberg

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Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Project Gutenberg tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

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03 · Alternatives

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04 · History

What changed

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05 · Details

How we measure

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The full technology stack and search numbers · 3 technologies

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Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 108 ms

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Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: wucOEvSnj5kP3Ts_36OfP64laakK-1mVTg-ptrGC9io

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