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It seems to have firsthand knowledge that this data has been stored permanently by Bloglines; what I'm curious about is why you think it wasn't stored by any ot
by jemfinch 16y ago
It seems to have firsthand knowledge that this data has been stored permanently by Bloglines; what I'm curious about is why you think it wasn't stored by any other companies that crawl the web for a living.
- gwern 16y agoIf a tree falls in Google's archives and no non-Googler can access it, does it really exist? Anyway. As AngryParsley says, the specific Google services in question inherently have a gap of a few years. I have already given examples from my personal trifling experiences looking up a few hundred dead sites where the sole public archive, the IA, fails. Scale that up to hundreds of thousands and millions of sites...