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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 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.




It 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.


If 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.


If Google doesn't want to maintain their own cache why would they pay to maintain someone else's cache?




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