The Internet does not stand still. Millions of sites are updated every day. The design, content and fundamentals of their work are changing. You can get outdated, but for some, relevant information in two common ways: searching in the web archive and searching for information in the cache of search engines.
It is necessary
A computer connected to the Internet
Instructions
Step 1
Search engines periodically scan the Internet, keeping copies of web pages in their memory. Usually a copy is saved for one date - the day the site is indexed by the search engine. Searching the web archive is more effective because it can return results for multiple dates.
Step 2
To search the web archive for the old version of the site, launch your browser. Enter web.archive.org in the address bar. It is the world's premier service for archiving, searching and viewing old versions of websites. On the site, in the line The Wayback Machine, enter the address of your desired site and click the Take me back button next to it. After clicking the button, a timeline of the existence of the searched site in years appears at the top of the site, and a calendar detailing a specific year by months and days at the bottom. First, select the year, month and specific day of the site's existence in the calendar grid. After that, you can see the version of the searched site for the selected date.
Step 3
To search for the old version of the site in the list of the most famous Google search engine, enter google.com in the address bar of the browser, go to the site. In the search bar, enter cache: yoursite.com, where yoursite.com is your search site. Click the search button. The search engine will display your page, and an additional line will appear at the top of the site, which displays the date of the last indexing of the searched site.
Step 4
Check the cache of the most famous search engine in Russia - Yandex. In the address bar of your browser, enter yandex.ru, go to the site. In the search bar, enter the address of the site you are looking for. Click the search button. Next, the search engine will give you a list of links, among which you need to find a link leading to the site you are looking for. In the same paragraph, at the end of the link description, find the word "copy". Click on it, and, as in the case of the Google search engine, the search engine will return your page saved in the Yandex cache, while an additional line is displayed at the top where you can see the date of the last indexing of the searched site.
