untangling_the_web

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Popdex
Backlinks from blogs (as well as the date of linkage) known to the Popdex blog
indexer.
The Similar tab is not entirely self-explanatory. Alexa, UCmore, Furl, and Google all
try to show related or similar websites, though not in the same way. Alexa shows
'people who visit this page also visit...'; UCmore clusters related pages by topic;
Furl is a collaborative bookmarking tool, so it only shows pages bookrnarked by the
same person (of dubious use); and Google's related pages is, in Fagan's and my
opinion, of poor quality. Google News will show related news articles, but only if the
original article has been indexed by Google News. The Waypath tool looks for blog
entries about a website, and Waypath is showing no links to http://www.google.com
and two hits on http://www.microsoft.com. There is obviously a problem with this
specific search.
The Cache tab is much more useful at this time. Fagan has done us all the great
service of bringing the search tools that cache webpages together so they can be
searched from one convenient interface. Also, URLinfo makes it possible to see
Google's cached pages without images, style sheets, or forms with Google
(plain). Openfind is an Asian search engine and does not yet have an English
version. I was unable to figure out how their caching works because of the language
barrier. For news and blogs Daypop caches each page it crawls. "Its cache is often
the most up-to-date copy of the page, and it shows the exact time that the copy was
made."
Here's the low-down on the other general cache tools at Fagan Finder:
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive has been crawling the web and caching pages since 1996.
The Wayback Machine allows you to view the copies made during any of those
crawls, and also to compare any two versions of the same page.
Google
When Google crawls the web, it stores a copy of each web page. This is the
most recent copy. This can also be used as a means of viewing some non-HTML
files converted to HTML.
Google (plain)
Google's stripped cache, with images, styles (style sheets), and forms removed.
Gigablast
Gigablast does not provide direct access to its cache. You must follow the link
labeled [archived copy]. Gigablast's cache shows the date on which the copy
was made.
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