How cached version of website affect you?

Labels: Posted by Edmond on 24.11.08 at 11:56 PM

Have you ever came across cached version of any website? In fact, when you search the internet using Google, Yahoo, Live Search or some other search engines, there is Cached appearing on the right bottom of each search result. Not sure if anyone actually bothers to click on the Cached link.


According to Google:

Google takes a snapshot of each page examined as it crawls the web and caches these as a back-up in case the original page is unavailable. If you click on the "Cached" link, you will see the web page as it looked when we indexed it. The cached content is the content Google uses to judge whether this page is a relevant match for your query.

When the cached page is displayed, it will have a header at the top which serves as a reminder that this is not necessarily the most recent version of the page. Terms that match your query are highlighted on the cached version to make it easier for you to see why your page is relevant.

The "Cached" link will be missing for sites that have not been indexed, as well as for sites whose owners have requested we not cache their content.


So how will the cache affect you? For example, if you posted something in your blog which you regretted later and then deleted it away, the cached version might still be available till the next time Google crawled your site again, so beware if your blog contains defamatory or private contents.

Here are some commands used to type in Google search engine to check about your website/blog status.

site: Indexed pages in your site site:allaboutinternetsecrets.blogspot.com
link: Pages that link to your site's front page link:allaboutinternetsecrets.blogspot.com
cache: The current cache of your site cache:allaboutinternetsecrets.blogspot.com
info: Information we have about your site info:allaboutinternetsecrets.blogspot.com
related: Pages that are similar to your site related:allaboutinternetsecrets.blogspot.com

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Archiving Monster somewhere out there?

Labels: Posted by Edmond on at 8:35 PM

Do you know there is a bot working very hard every day, every min, out there crawling for websites to archive?

To date 85 billions sites have been archived. Can you believe it? It is 85 billions websites. It would take a lifetime if we were to browse all the sites out there.

Yes, the monster is called Internet Archive. Also, with the WayBackMachine, you can browse what a certain website looks like all the way back till 1996, the year Internet Archive was founded.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.

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