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How can a website vanish

Woodcutting · 2024-08-26 17:52:18

There used to be an online newspaper. I read it occasionally. Now it has completely vanished. I googled a headline I remembered which before would have this paper in the first or second result. Now nothing. No Facebook. Nothing on the wayback machine. Nothing by googling newspaper.com writer Joe bloggs which before brought…

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There used to be an online newspaper. I read it occasionally. Now it has completely vanished. I googled a headline I remembered which before would have this paper in the first or second result. Now nothing. No Facebook. Nothing on the wayback machine. Nothing by googling newspaper.com writer Joe bloggs which before brought up Joe bloggs stories.
No mention at all on Google results if you Google newspaper.com

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Going bust or being bought out.
newspaper websites are often excluded from the wayback machine; to allow them to fully remove stories and/or make you pay for archives.

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#3 26-08-2024 08:17PM

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Thanks
I found a bit of Facebook and a bit on wayback. Don't know how I missed it. Only found on pc not on phone
Apologies.

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