The Internet Archive should actively partner with bit.ly / tinyurl.com / icanhaz.com etc. and maintain a mirror database of their redirects
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The Internet Archive should actively partner with bit.ly / tinyurl.com / icanhaz.com etc. and maintain a mirror database of their redirects
A more pressing issue, IMHO, is that IA respects robots.txt retroactively, so that expired domain squatters are slowly eating the archive.
I've seen it on many great sites.
I understand the copyright concern which causes respect for robots.txt, but IA should require some proof of ownership continuance before removing prior archives.
In any case, I think URL xref services like is.gd, etc. should standardize on expiry strategy-- if that's IA, so be it.
Jeremy Dunck - 9th March 2009 01:31 - #