We’ve talked about “digital disintegration” in the past. It’s known that 38% of websites that existed in 2013 disappeared from the internet. There’s always been a great tool to access a large portion of these: the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but now that option will be easier than ever to use.

This will happen thanks to the agreement Google signed with this NGO, which has become the world’s largest digital newspaper library for years. The alliance will provide us with: access missing web pages currently from Google’s own search engine.

The Internet Archive provides more details about this agreement and points out the simplicity of the process. All you have to do is do a normal search on Google. Next to each search result, we will see three dots and if we click on this icon, we can select the option “About this result”.

Selecting the “More information about this page” option will show in this panel. A link to the Wayback Machine for that web page. This direct link will allow us to access previous versions of that web page, allowing us to access both lost pages and previous versions of a web page that are frequently updated over time.

As explained in this important organization, the Internet Archive thus allows users to benefit from the web preservation work they have been doing for years. Of course, they warn: If the rights holder chooses not to enable this archiving work or if the website violates the Wayback Machine usage policies, the links to the websites archived in that newspaper library will not be available.

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