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> Is there a log of who instigated a wayback archive? Could they have been a different group doing what this person was? Yes, IA now has a "About this capture"
by exikyut 3y ago
> Is there a log of who instigated a wayback archive? Could they have been a different group doing what this person was?
Yes, IA now has a "About this capture" popdown at the far right of the injected toolbar. The first ever capture and some of the subsequent captures for one of the sites was from Alexa Crawls, provided by Alexa Internet; some later captures were from a "Survey Crawl" based on "a list of every host in the wayback machine". So this is basically automated, long-tail vacuum cleaning work.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoI apparently misunderstood how the wayback machine worked. I thought it only archived pages that a user requested, and most pages end up archived due to people with the browser add-on installed to archive every page they visit. Thanks to both people that cleared up my mistake, it has always seemed they had much stronger coverage than they should for my mistaken view of how it worked.
- emikulic 3y agoYou're thinking of archive.is
- cirosantilli 3y agoI wonder how Alexa found those domains in the first place. Were there links to them, or did it use some kind of DNS dump?