@DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoGoogle will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are deadarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16arrow-up1130cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.org
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minus-square@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThree guesses at if they even attempted to donate this data to Internet Archive/Wayback Machine, and the first two don’t count.
minus-square@BreakDecks@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoGoogle cached content is pruned down into a space-saving format and rotated/deleted after less than a year, so it would be pretty worthless to the IA.
minus-squareChozolinkfedilink1•1 year agoInternet Archive likely wouldn’t be able to handle it. They’re already struggling currently, as it is, and dumping a few petabytes of caches of the entire internet onto them probably won’t help.
Three guesses at if they even attempted to donate this data to Internet Archive/Wayback Machine, and the first two don’t count.
Google cached content is pruned down into a space-saving format and rotated/deleted after less than a year, so it would be pretty worthless to the IA.
Internet Archive likely wouldn’t be able to handle it. They’re already struggling currently, as it is, and dumping a few petabytes of caches of the entire internet onto them probably won’t help.