The WayBack Machine - Archive.org

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    What has happened to the WayBack Machine from Archive.org? Back in the day it used to export the new snapshots of sites approximately 2 months after it was cached. Their FAQ's say it could take "up to 6 months" to show on the site, yet when I search for any of the big guns, google, ebay, etc, the latest export date I can find is August 29th 2007 - which, correct me If my math skills have deteriorated from last week, but that's almost 9 months ago and not a single snapshot exported, despite Google and eBay having snapshots exported to the way back machine almost on a weekly basis.

    So, what has happened to the glorious WayBack Machine?! :(
     
    Spider-Man, May 11, 2008 IP
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  2. Professional Dude

    Professional Dude Prominent Member

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    I see Aug 24, 2007 for one of my sites, seems like something is wrong ;)
     
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  4. Spider-Man

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    Yeah, I never liked the Wayback machine, it never gets the snapshots I want. Often their snapshots links leads to a 404 page or unavailable snapshot. :(
     
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    well, It seem to be nothing to me as I didn't use it offtenly.
     
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    I have found lately three noticeable annoyances when it comes to archive.org

    - Pages are loading quite slow
    - Pages are displayed with a forced UTF-8 encoding despite their original encoding, fact which is causing a mess with those pages with accents and special characters.
    - Pages are being deleted rather than added.

    I went last night to retrieve some information about a personal site which has been "under revamping process" for at least one year but older pages already indexed for several years back.

    Even though this time I found none of them :confused:
     
    Trusted Writer, May 15, 2008 IP