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Re:Ask HN: Why aren’t the Wayback Machine archived pages ind... by elliottinvent on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:17PM (#26365146)
Search engines are designed to give you the best result on the web today.

The Wayback Machine / archive.org is a snapshot in time of the web.

If search engines combined the current web and old web it would be an interesting experiment but possiblly a diff nightmare.

Maybe it’s something that could be a point of differentiation for a new search engine compared to Google.

For anyone wanting to take this on, maybe start with Common Crawl [0]

0. https://commoncrawl.org/the-data/

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