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Monday, 17th March 2003

More Sources for Cached Web Pages

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More Sources for Cached Web Pages
We're all aware of the fact that Google "caches" pages each time Googlebot comes through and crawls a web page. Caches are not permanent. The Wayback Machine an archive project does keep pages permanently) . Each page is "recached" each time the crawler visits the page. What gets by many people is that other web engines also cache web pages and could be useful in attempting to find a specific page that's either been removed from the web or its content has changed. Is any one source perfect? No. However, having multiple sources can be very useful. A few weeks ago I mentioned Fagan Finder's Page Information Viewer. It's a great tool to check various page info sources. It's also useful to check and see if the page has been cached by any/all of the following sources:
* Google
* Google News
* Daypop
* Incy Wincy (A small web engine, many pages cached in November, 2002)
* Yuntis (An experimental engine from State University of New York, Stonybrook)
* The Internet Archive (A PERMANENT source to over 30 billion captured web pages)
--You'll find direct links to these various sources in the left column of the page.
--One More Point: Gigablast, another general web engine also caches web pages. Simply run your search and press the cache link or enter a url and see if the page is available. Gigablast also does a good job of listing the date the page was cached.
See Also: Fagan Finder Also Makes a Useful Tool "Site Info" Page. Look for the Link Labeled "Bookmarklet"
See Also: Feedster is Another Source for Cached Content

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