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Google Search will take you ‘Wayback’ with links to the Internet Archive | With Google’s cached results gone, embedded Internet Archive links in search may be the next best thing (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology
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This collaboration with Google underscores the importance of web archiving and expands the reach of the Wayback Machine, making it even easier for users to access and explore archived content.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I hope they're donating big chunks of money to the Internet Archive in return for what's likely to bring a ton of extra traffic.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago

Ideally it'd be a check that comes close to what they saved from no longer hosting caches themselves.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

INB4 people start using this to claim the internet archive doesn’t care about privacy and is another Firefox

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They must be proxying the traffic off of a cached copy. I doubt they'd be sending traffic straight to IA.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I would hope, but I've been burned enough to not assume big companies are doing things the sensible way.