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Wayback Machine lets you explore and search more than 866 billion web pages saved from different dates. You can also capture, manage and browse collections of digital content with Archive-It service.
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Save Page Now. Capture a web page as it appears now for use...
- Using The Wayback Machine
This introduction video provides an overview for how to use...
- Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
There are a number of easy URL-based queries for conducting...
- Wayback Machine General Information
What is the Wayback Machine? The Internet Archive Wayback...
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Search the history of over 866 billion web pages on the...
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- General Metadata Search
- Advanced Search
- Full-Text Search
- BookReader Text Search
- TV News Captions
- Wayback Machine Search
- Can I Search by Creative Commons License?
- How Do I Sort Search Results?
- How Do I Search Just Within A Collection?
- How Can I View Search Results as A List Instead of Picture tiles?
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This uses the metadata on item pages, like title, creator, description, subjects, etc. It returns results from pages on the site. Boolean operators(AND, OR, AND NOT and ranges using TO) work for this search. To use this on the site, select Search metadata in the drop-down that appears when you type a query in the input text field. When you enter te...
Click on the blue Advanced Searchbelow the input text field. You will be taken to the Advanced Searchpage. The Advanced Search also uses item metadata on item pages. It allows you to use the form to create more complex search queries and also to output the results in several formats: JSON, XML HTML, CSV, and RSS URL. You will find more information ...
This allows you to search inside books and other text items. It uses the OCRed text file derived from the processing of uploaded text formatted files such as PDF or scanned image zips. It will search all texts on the site. To use this on the site, select Search text contentsin the drop-down that appears when you type a query in the input text field...
This allows you to search the contents of a single item when using the bookreader. The search field is in the upper right in the bookreader. Enter the search item into the search bar that says Search Inside. The system will search inside the book and results will appear as blue icons. Mouse over the blue icon. Click on the preferred search result t...
This uses the search engine for the TV News Archive. It searches the closed caption files for captured TV News items. To use this on the site, select Search TV news captionsin the drop-down that appears when you type a query in the input text field. Alternatively, click on the Videoicon. Select the TV News category. Enter your criteria into the sea...
To search for websites on the Wayback Machine, enter the specific URL of the website into the search bar and select Search archived websitesin the drop-down. Alternatively, click on the Web icon on the upper left side of the black bar. Enter the correct URL into the Wayback Machine search bar. Select the desired year. Select the date and the time. ...
Yes, you can. But it’s a little complicated. 1. You need to go and find the license types at the Creative Commons Website. You can do so at the following link creative commons. 2. Scroll down the page on the Creative Commons Website to find the abbreviations. 3. When you want to find all of the items assigned a certain license by an uploading party...
The SORT BY bar has options to allow you to control which results are displayed, in what order and what view:
On a collection page, there will be a Search this Collectioninput field on the left side of the page. Enter a term there and hit your return/enter key. The results will be of items in that collection. For advanced Boolean search, you can use AND collection:[IDENTIFIER]in your query.
For most search results pages, you can choose the view in the Sort bybar: Tile view (the icon with three rectangles) or List view (the icon with multiple lines.) Tile view is the default view. Click which view you prefer, and your choice will “stick” as you navigate the site until you switch back to the other view.
Learn how to use different types of search on archive.org, including Wayback Machine search. Find out how to search by URL, year, date, time, license, and more.
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. Created in 1996 and launched to the public in 2001, it allows the user to go "back in time" to see how websites looked in the past.
