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You could make it take a really, really long time to find more obscure things. Everything that ever happened is a lot of data to sift through, so that should be reasonable enough. Like the internet, perhaps all of the major events could be well-indexed and easy to find. But the more specific and obscure things that an Oracle might want to know may be much harder to find. If the web page you're looking wasn't indexed by Google, it'd take a much longer time to find it, wouldn't you say? So as a limitation, just make it take an inconveniently long time to find things that are not the big moves and shakes of history. (This has also been brought up in this answer and this answer.)

Actually, this idea comes up in the manga ib: Instant Bullet by Akasaka Aka, and I think it presents the concept of the search duration limitation rather well (read right-to-left):

"The Akashic Records. All information is recorded there, from the beginning of the world to its end. My Ib is the magic to 'search' the Akashic Records and extract information from them. ...I'm sure my explanation of it makes it seem incredibly powerful, but the truth is, it's a nearly worthless power. The amount of data that exists in the world is far too vast to comprehend. Even a single search takes an inordinate amount of time."

"A week to learn where a lost wallet was dropped. A month to learn what Sera is thinking right now. To learn about the future the witch saw... Even a lifetime might not be enough. No matter what, it would take too long. By the time I had what I needed to know, it would all be too late. A truly, powerless, worthless magic."

You could make it take a really, really long time to find more obscure things. Everything that ever happened is a lot of data to sift through, so that should be reasonable enough. Like the internet, perhaps all of the major events could be well-indexed and easy to find. But the more specific and obscure things that an Oracle might want to know may be much harder to find. If the web page you're looking wasn't indexed by Google, it'd take a much longer time to find it, wouldn't you say? So as a limitation, just make it take an inconveniently long time to find things that are not the big moves and shakes of history. (This has also been brought up in this answer and this answer.)

Actually, this idea comes up in the manga ib: Instant Bullet by Akasaka Aka, and I think it presents the concept rather well (read right-to-left):

"The Akashic Records. All information is recorded there, from the beginning of the world to its end. My Ib is the magic to 'search' the Akashic Records and extract information from them. ...I'm sure my explanation of it makes it seem incredibly powerful, but the truth is, it's a nearly worthless power. The amount of data that exists in the world is far too vast to comprehend. Even a single search takes an inordinate amount of time."

"A week to learn where a lost wallet was dropped. A month to learn what Sera is thinking right now. To learn about the future the witch saw... Even a lifetime might not be enough. No matter what, it would take too long. By the time I had what I needed to know, it would all be too late. A truly, powerless, worthless magic."

You could make it take a really, really long time to find more obscure things. Everything that ever happened is a lot of data to sift through, so that should be reasonable enough. Like the internet, perhaps all of the major events could be well-indexed and easy to find. But the more specific and obscure things that an Oracle might want to know may be much harder to find. If the web page you're looking wasn't indexed by Google, it'd take a much longer time to find it, wouldn't you say? So as a limitation, just make it take an inconveniently long time to find things that are not the big moves and shakes of history. (This has also been brought up in this answer and this answer.)

Actually, this idea comes up in the manga ib: Instant Bullet by Akasaka Aka, and I think it presents the concept of the search duration limitation rather well (read right-to-left):

"The Akashic Records. All information is recorded there, from the beginning of the world to its end. My Ib is the magic to 'search' the Akashic Records and extract information from them. ...I'm sure my explanation of it makes it seem incredibly powerful, but the truth is, it's a nearly worthless power. The amount of data that exists in the world is far too vast to comprehend. Even a single search takes an inordinate amount of time."

"A week to learn where a lost wallet was dropped. A month to learn what Sera is thinking right now. To learn about the future the witch saw... Even a lifetime might not be enough. No matter what, it would take too long. By the time I had what I needed to know, it would all be too late. A truly, powerless, worthless magic."

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You could make it take a really, really long time to find more obscure things. Everything that ever happened is a lot of data to sift through, so that should be reasonable enough. Like the internet, perhaps all of the major events could be well-indexed and easy to find. But the more specific and obscure things that an Oracle might want to know may be much harder to find. If the web page you're looking wasn't indexed by Google, it'd take a much longer time to find it, wouldn't you say? So as a limitation, just make it take an inconveniently long time to find things that are not the big moves and shakes of history. (This has also been brought up in this answer and this answer.)

Actually, this idea comes up in the manga ib: Instant Bullet by Akasaka Aka, and I think it presents the concept rather well (read right-to-left):

"The Akashic Records. All information is recorded there, from the beginning of the world to its end. My Ib is the magic to 'search' the Akashic Records and extract information from them. ...I'm sure my explanation of it makes it seem incredibly powerful, but the truth is, it's a nearly worthless power. The amount of data that exists in the world is far too vast to comprehend. Even a single search takes an inordinate amount of time."

"A week to learn where a lost wallet was dropped. A month to learn what Sera is thinking right now. To learn about the future the witch saw... Even a lifetime might not be enough. No matter what, it would take too long. By the time I had what I needed to know, it would all be too late. A truly, powerless, worthless magic."