This collaboration with Google underscores the importance of web archiving and expands the reach of the Wayback Machine, making it even easier for users to access and explore archived content.
I hope they’re donating big chunks of money to the Internet Archive in return for what’s likely to bring a ton of extra traffic.
INB4 people start using this to claim the internet archive doesn’t care about privacy and is another Firefox
Ideally it’d be a check that comes close to what they saved from no longer hosting caches themselves.
They must be proxying the traffic off of a cached copy. I doubt they’d be sending traffic straight to IA.
I would hope, but I’ve been burned enough to not assume big companies are doing things the sensible way.
Embrace and so forth…
The IA is about to be nuked by their lost lawsuit. If Google will keep them afloat just about anything would be better than them vanishing entirely.
