Invisible to Wayback Machine?

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 7:20 am

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  So, I was checking myself out on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://raincoaster.com/ and I find I haven’t been indexed since May 29, 2008. Anybody got any ideas why? Trust me, my blog has NEVER been private!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 7:21 am

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  Um, once again that link is:

  http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://raincoaster.com/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 7:26 am

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  June 2008 for me.

  Did they run out of storage space?

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 8:12 am

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  Dunno. Is that for your wp.com blog or your independently-hosted one?

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  mark · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 8:52 am

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  I just tried
  http://mark.wordpress.com
  http://barry.wordpress.com
  http://ma.tt
  http://gigaom.com
  http://raincoaster.wordpress.com
  and none have an entry for 2009

  I also tried
  http://osx.iusethis.com/
  http://tamba2.org.uk/T2
  and neither have an entry for 2009

  So it looks like they changed something or they broke?

  It’s certainly nothing here – the bot that crawls sites checks and acts on the robots.txt and we do not block it.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 9:07 am

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  Maybe there’s a waiting period before they post your archive?

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  mark · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 9:24 am

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  Why are there no recent archives in the Wayback Machine?

  It generally takes 6 months or more for pages to appear in the Wayback Machine after they are collected, because of delays in transferring material to long-term storage and indexing.

  http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#103

  Strange. But their Announcement forum has no news.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2009 at 9:30 am

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  And May, 2008 is WAY more than six months ago.