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In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for ...

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will remove links that provide cached sites from search result pages in February 2024, and users will no longer be able to see sites in the state they were last visited by Google. However, Google has ...

Starting today, Google LLC’s search engine platform will provide direct links to cached articles within The Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine, adding historical context to user’s search results. It’s ...

Click to viewSome of the most intriguing resources on the web are located in archives—compilations of data that in the past, could only be found by making appointments in dusty libraries. Today, I'm ...

The internet is constantly changing, with websites appearing and disappearing and information being added or removed constantly. This makes it hard for people who study and analyze the internet or ...

In celebration of its 20 th anniversary of web preservation, the Internet Archive has launched a new search engine dedicated entirely to the vintage GIFs that helped shape the early Internet. The ...

The first thing I thought of when I saw domains like google-archivesearch.com (registered Friday) was the WayBackMachine. If my gut instinct is correct, it won't be long before Google launches a ...

Internet Archive hit by second breach in two weeks, exposing 800,000 support tickets. User data at risk. Security measures underway. Hackers breached the Internet Archive, exposing data of 31 million ...

This new Google-competitor records and analyzes past searches to help determine relevancy, favoring sites where surfers visited most frequently and lingered the longest. Search results are displayed ...