Ask HN: Why aren’t the Wayback Machine archived pages indexed by search engines?

Re:Ask HN: Why aren’t the Wayback Machine archived pages ind... by hosa on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:25PM (#26360945)

Yes I know that extension.. But my purpose is different, for researching and education , there are pages that only exist in the internet archive, and so I do not want to search the same thing two times in two different places..

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren’t the Wayback Machine archived pages ind... by cyberlab on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:25PM (#26361592)

Yeah but if the site issues a 404, you simply right click and the extension will show you the archived copy. Sadly many sites fail to provide a decent 404 page if a resource doesn't exist, they just do redirect spamming or in the worst case: 503 error[0]

(But I understand your need for text search on these services)

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/503

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