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

[Ray Saintonge]

Rodan Bury wrote:
> 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.
>   
Even if Google Cache were less ephemeral, it's hard to avoid the soupçon 
of evil that permeates Google.

Ec

> 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.
>>