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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)
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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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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 112 points 1 month ago (4 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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

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

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