[Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

[Rodan Bury]

Google's cache only last a handful of days. It's very useful if the Website
is down temporarily (for maintenance or overload for example) but totally
useless otherwise.

Kind Regards, Dodoïste

2010/8/24 theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com>

> Its a great idea, using the wayback machine to ward of link rot. I support
> it but doesn't Google cache offer a similar service. there is also
> deadURL.com which uses Google Cache, the Internet Archive, and user
> submissions for gathering dead links.
>
> I would guess that Google Cache would have the highest and the longest
> reliability, at least as long as Google exists, its their business.
>
> Regards
>
> Theo