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Re:The People Behind the Wayback Machine by ijk on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:08AM (#7829021)
The trick is, of course, that it's nearly impossible to predict what will be useful to someone ahead of time. While you can probably sort out some of the spam, a comprehensive archiving project should probably avoid false positives when throwing things away.

Seems like a hard problem to solve. The low-hanging fruit would probably be detecting duplicates and combining them, which loses redundancy but handles all of those identical landing pages.

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