DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 9 months agoGoogle will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are deadarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down16cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.org
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minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·9 months agoThree guesses at if they even attempted to donate this data to Internet Archive/Wayback Machine, and the first two don’t count.
minus-squareBreakDecks@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months 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-squareChozo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months 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.