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If a tree falls in Google's archives and no non-Googler can access it, does it really exist? Anyway.

As AngryParsley says, the specific Google services in question inherently have a gap of a few years. I have already given examples from my personal trifling experiences looking up a few hundred dead sites where the sole public archive, the IA, fails. Scale that up to hundreds of thousands and millions of sites...



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