When I search for Perl, it seems like nothing has changed. When I click through to Perl.com and look at the archived articles, they look like they all could have been written today.
I'm not sure what this says about anything, but it is interesting.
I'm pretty sure this is meaningless as well, but interesting:
Then
2,730,000 for asp code
2,450,000 for java code
1,730,000 for php code
1,710,000 for perl code
276,000 for python code
224,000 for lisp code
89,600 for ruby code
9,580 for erlang code
Now
64,700,000 for php code
25,700,000 for asp code
15,500,000 for java code
1,540,000 for perl code
1,390,000 for erlang code
1,160,000 for python code
711,000 for ruby code
484,000 for lisp code
Bin Laden has vowed to wage a jihad or holy war against U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia because of U.S. support for Israel. He broadened his threat to include all Americans, military and civilian, in the Middle East.
and
The terrorist said, "We predict a black day for America."
The fifth result when searching for "wikipedia" has the text:
"WikiPedia is a new wiki site I have set up at http://www.wikipedia.com/ .
WikiPedia is an offshoot project of NuPedias OpenContent encyclopedia project."
There are only 681 results (3 pages), and all of the Internet Archive links go nowhere.
Some differences in how the Google index and IA crawls handled redirects and canonicalization may make it a little harder to click-through to the archives Wikipedia pages, but they're available. Try:
The only product in our roundup that is solely vendor-hosted, Viaweb Store 3.0
shines brightly amid the e-commerce crowd. You don't have to install any ...
That's because of the web's ever-popping foam of bubbles, to quote Ted Nelson. The web's main feature is a lack of permanency, because people either unpublish, have to pay for hosting which becomes economically unviable, or host for 'free' until the free host gets bought out and deleted.
It's got the website I made in high school, but the Internet Archive only has the text of the main page, no images :(
I wish they had my very first "webpage" from elementary school, which was just one of those AltaVista or GeoCities things where you fill out a form (basically the predecessor of social network "profiles", without the network)
You know, I didn't appreciate the magnitude of what they did until trying out your suggestion. I didn't realize that they'd literally gone back to the old search index . . . I thought it was just a superficial change.
Man 2001, feels so long ago. That was the year I finally got internet at home, and a few months later I built my first website on Geocities. Damn you Google, making us feel nostalgic.
> The revolutionary iPhone is a fully integrated telephone and Internet device with a built-in touch screen to bring the world of the Internet into your home ...
Google's index is the crawling information they gathered. You can actually do searches and get results as they would have been 7 years ago. The WayBack Machine just caches the HTML pages and would not provide this functionality.
Briefly in 2004, the Wayback Machine provided a search engine for its entire archive, back to about 1997. This is now gone. Probably Amazon didn't like it (Amazon owns Alexa and thus controls the WM caching).
I'm not sure what this says about anything, but it is interesting.