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“There’s another solution, but it’s on shaky ground. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserves historic copies of websites as a public service, but the o
by lukasb 2y ago
“There’s another solution, but it’s on shaky ground. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserves historic copies of websites as a public service, but the organization is in a constant battle to stay solvent. Google’s Sullivan floated the idea of a partnership with the Internet Archive, though that’s nothing close to an official plan.”
Too lazy to find a link, but this is now public and live, although pretty well hidden. Three dots menu for a search result -> More about this page.
- lysace 2y agoIt seems like just a templated link in a hidden corner. "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL." A large part of the usefulness of the cache links came from the inherent freshness and completeness of the Google indexing.
- DarkCrusader2 2y agoIf the partnership with Internet archive happens, I would be glad that IA will get better funding to keep operating. But I am also concerned with Firefox like situation happening with IA, where Google pulling funding might pose existential risk to IA.
- mellow-lake-day 2y agoIf Google doesn't want to maintain their own cache why would they pay to maintain someone else's cache?