When we carry out something as simple as a Google search, we need the results to be as useful as possible. This is something that the technology giant is constantly working on to meet the needs of the majority of the planet.
We are telling you all this because the company has now reached an agreement and has partnered with a website that most of you know very well. Specifically, we are referring to the popular Internet Archive that you have surely used on more than one occasion. This is a website that has been with us for many years, accumulating all kinds of content that allows us to go back in time, among other things.
Thanks to the aforementioned partnership with Google, our search results will show links to archived and older versions of web pages. As you can imagine, this will help users see what the content of a web page was like in the past, which is quite striking in most cases.
And we must take into account that Google itself removed the links from its cache for search results last February. This was a decision that was highly criticized by most. But already at that time one of the prominent members of Google hinted at the agreement that has now been reached with Internet Archive. That would explain the disappearance of the cache and the compatibility with the links that we are now discussing.
Hence, this arrival is probably quite welcome for most users, a much more interesting change than the use of web cache.
How to view Internet Archive results in Google
As we told you, you have surely used this website on many occasions, which we access from hereto see what pages looked like in the past. Those who are curious or for more professional reasons will appreciate this integration with Google.
It is possible that certain websites are removed and we need to see the old versions to see what they were like. This will also be of enormous help when it comes to obtaining information that has already been removed from those pages and is not available elsewhere. The truth is that the uses of the websites stored by Internet Archive are endless.
Therefore, we are going to explain how to obtain them right now through your Google searches. The first thing we do is open the search engine page in the conventional way and write the term we are interested in locating on a certain website.
First of all, we must take into account that this is something that is currently in the testing phase, so there is still a lot to improve. In fact, it still does not work as many would expect, and we will have to wait a few days. But these are the steps to follow.
Once we have the usual results on the screen, we click on the three-dot button next to one of them. Among the available options, we choose the one that says More about this page in the right panel. At that point, we will see a section on the screen specially dedicated to the old versions offered by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
