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Why are some websites excluded from Wayback Machine?
Some sites may not be included because the automated crawlers were unaware of their existence at the time of the crawl. It’s also possible that some sites were not archived because they were password protected, blocked by robots. txt, or otherwise inaccessible to our automated systems.
Does Archive org respect robots txt?
The folks at Archive.org said that robots. txt files don’t serve the purpose of an archive site. txt files that are geared toward search engine crawlers do not necessarily serve our archival purposes.”
How to properly allow the Archive.org..?
In the box at the TOP of the page, enter the URL of a page on your site, and click the “Browse History” button. Or, in the box under “Save Page Now” (currently near the bottom on the right), and enter the URL of a page on your site, and click the “Save Page” button.
Is the Internet Archive a non-profit organization?
As you may know, Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library, seeking to maintain via the Wayback Machine a freely accessible historical record of the Internet. The material in the archives are not exploited by Internet Archive for commercial profit. I created wayback-removal-request.html with the following content (not even valid HTML):
Why are some sites not included in the Internet Archive?
We hope to implement a full text search engine at some point in the future. Why isn’t the site I’m looking for in the archive? Some sites may not be included because the automated crawlers were unaware of their existence at the time of the crawl.
Is the Archive.org compatible with web crawlers?
Archive.org now (2018) does NOT respect the “robots.txt” any more at all. 3 Not only for mil/gov pages, but for all pages. As experienced with my own private website, which has and had an ia-excluding robots.txt since 2012; and now I suddenly found out it has been crawled and saved by them all the years and now the whole history is visible.