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Google Groups - http://groups.google.com/
Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years. |
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The Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org
Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots". The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage. There are special collections, for example on Web pioneers. |
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The European Archive - http://www.europarchive.org/
Digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. The collection includes public information films, recordings and Web harvest of political related and government websites. |
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Archive-It.org - http://www.archive-it.org/
A subscription service from the Internet Archive, which allows institutions to build, manage and search their own web archive. Includes the sites of universities, libraries, and special interest collections of websites. |
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MINERVA: Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html
Library of Congress Web Archiving Project aims to collect and preserve Web sites useful in serving the current or future informational needs of Congress and researchers. |
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First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/
Journal article by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff. Examines the consequences and implications of internet search engines continuously reconstructing the past by updating their indices. |
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NewsletterArchive.org - http://newsletterarchive.org
Aims to archive and make available to the public all email newsletters and electronic mailing lists. It will rely on user contributions for its content. |
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Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine - http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2160061
Article by Gary Price and Genie Tyburski. Explores the question of "what is a date on the web?" and notes that a searcher may be misled by the results of searches restricted by date. |
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The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need? - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/15/google_the_only_archive_well/
Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive. |
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The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/
Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does. |