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IIRC, their crawler pushes (or pushed) a lot of page into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. What kind of effect will this shutdown have on it?
by tablespoon 5y ago
IIRC, their crawler pushes (or pushed) a lot of page into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. What kind of effect will this shutdown have on it?
- betamaxthetape 5y agoNo effect, I believe, since Alexa haven't been providing crawl data to the Internet Archive since January 2021. You can see this by looking at the "Items" graph on the Alexa Crawls collection [0] (I am not associated with the Internet Archive - just a very happy user!) [0] https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?tab=about https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?tab=about
- tablespoon 5y ago> No effect, I believe, since Alexa haven't been providing crawl data to the Internet Archive since January 2021. Were they still providing value to the Wayback Machine at that point? Has their cessation had a significant impact on the Wayback Machine's crawling ability?