

You can tell if the image or link you are looking for is in the Wayback Machine by entering the image or link’s URL into the Wayback Machine search box.
FILE SEARCH MACHINE ARCHIVE
Usually this means that we did not archive them. Where is the rest of the archived site? Why am I getting broken or gray images on a site?īroken images occur when the images are not available on our servers. It does not save multiple pages, directories or entire sites. This does not currently add the URL to any future crawls nor does it save more than that one page. On you can use the “Save Page Now” feature to save a specific page one time. We can no longer offer the service to pack up sites that have been lost. We can’t guarantee that your site has been or will be archived. However, you may use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to locate and access archived versions of a site to which you own the rights. Our terms of use do not cover backups for the general public. How can I get a copy of the pages on my Web site? If my site got hacked or damaged, could I get a backup from the Archive?’ We do not make any guarantees beforehand about the outcome of a request.
FILE SEARCH MACHINE FULL
We hope to implement a full text search engine at some point in the future. Using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, it is possible to search for the names of sites contained in the Archive (URLs) and to specify date ranges for your search. Search results are ranked by the number of captures in the Wayback and the number of relevant links to the site’s homepage. The Site Search feature of the Wayback Machine is based on an index built by evaluating terms from hundreds of billions of links to the homepages of more than 350 million sites.

How can I use the Wayback Machine’s Site Search to find websites? You can even use fuzzy URL matching and date specification… but that’s a bit more advanced. If you find an archived page that you would like to reference on your Web page or in an article, you can copy the URL. Yes! The Wayback Machine is built so that it can be used and referenced.
FILE SEARCH MACHINE HOW TO
This introduction video provides an overview for how to use the Wayback Machine, including information about searching by URL or keyword, understanding provenance, and saving your own pages, along with other features.Ĭan I link to old pages on the Wayback Machine?
