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proximo · on Sept 30, 2008

There is an older index. Why does no one use The Way Back Machine?

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.ed...

Perhaps this is when Google became google.com?

kylec · on Oct 1, 2008

Google's index is the crawling information they gathered. You can actually do searches and get results as they would have been 7 years ago. The WayBack Machine just caches the HTML pages and would not provide this functionality.

zandorg · on Oct 1, 2008

Briefly in 2004, the Wayback Machine provided a search engine for its entire archive, back to about 1997. This is now gone. Probably Amazon didn't like it (Amazon owns Alexa and thus controls the WM caching).