On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:40:14PM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Google thus serves as an honesty mechanism, holding people responsible for what they have said and making it more difficult for them to conceal revisions to their published opinions.
Not necessarily. Anyone who wants to post something controversial and deny it later will hide it behind a cgi script or something Google won't index. Google caches catch only those who didn't take precautions.
It's unfortunate that we have to rely on Google. Imagine an ongoing, distributed project to cache the web. Volunteers could keep tabs on a subset of corporate and personal web pages and cache old versions when changes are made. Rewriting history becomes that much harder. And it's certainly a better use of computers than seti@home.
Sounds great. Good luck in starting it. I'm sure you've estimated how much this will cost -- and what market demand will be. -Declan (online since early 1980s, on the Internet since 1988, who still thinks FAQs are a great way to find info)