Google Partners With Internet Archive To Link To Archives In Search (9to5google.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/09/11/1944253/google-partners-with-internet-archive-to-link-to-archives-in-search
- Source link: https://9to5google.com/2024/09/11/google-search-internet-archive-wayback-machine/
> Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will [1]now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results. [...] Google has partnered with The Internet Archive, a non-profit research library that, in part, stores and preserves massive portions of the web to be easily referenced later. This is done through the "Wayback Machine" which can show a website or specific page as it existed on a previous date. Through this new partnership, Google will link directly to The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for pages that you find in Search.
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> To access The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine links through Google Search you'll need to click the three-dots menu button that appears alongside all search results and then tap on "More about this page." This new feature is still actively rolling out, but Google was able to provide [2]an image to show what the integration looks like.
In [3]a post regarding the announcement, The Internet Archive said that this partnership "underscores the importance of web archiving."
[1] https://9to5google.com/2024/09/11/google-search-internet-archive-wayback-machine/
[2] https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/09/image-2-1.png
[3] https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/new-feature-alert-access-archived-webpages-directly-through-google-search/
Like the great work done with Deja News archive? (Score:3, Interesting)
Can you please hand over Deja News archive to Internet Archive so its searchable again? This important part of Internet History is effectively gone because of how broken Google Groups is.
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Wonder how big the archive is? (minus the binaries groups)
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No to mention the Google Cache, which they've all but removed. I'm sure they have tons of sites in that cache that the Wayback Machine could use; let's hope they decide to share it before deleting it.
"Adding context" (Score:2)
I hope it's not done in the same condescending manner as their "context" dialogs on YouTube, which I'd rather not see, at all.
I think this is a bad idea. (Score:1)
There are many people who use the court to go after IA to remove their work or cite their work being there as a reason to shut them down. There are so many more property holders that still don't know about IA and I believe Google integration is just going to speed IA's inevitable demise. Another reason for me to become a millionaire and back the site up.
Is this functionality desirable? (Score:2)
I honestly don't know, and I don't know what pressures Google may or may not have brought to bear to get access to search the internet archive. I don't know if the group running the internet archive welcome this or fought it. I do know that it's a significant investment on Google's part, in fact. Is this something Google users want? My intuitive (unconsidered) answer would be "yes", but that opinion formed some few milliseconds before I thought to myself that I would probably never use it, except maybe
"In the case of Goliath Jr. v. Sr., how find ye?" (Score:2)
After losing their recent court case with the book publishers, it makes sense for the Internet Archive to partner with Google. If I remember correctly, Google had a similar lawsuit filed against them back in the day, and their successful defense was "We're Google, and we do what we want; shut up and take it."
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I read the last judgement in the Hachette v. IA case when it came out, and it does mention the Google Books case. The actual successful defence was Google Books doesn't compete with eBook sales because it added something novel (global, simultaneous search) without replacing an eBook entirely (because you can only read a couple of pages before it locks you out.)
Most people are unaware that the Internet Archive's mission to make eBooks loanable conflicts not with normal consumer book sales or eBook sales, but