At 07:46 PM 03/28/2001 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote:

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Since when did search engines archive images?

Quite a while now. Google for example has a long history of being a saviour for many a lost webpage. You can also look at the various database projects that 'store the Internet'. IBM has one.

Generally Google only caches the text, not the pictures. For example, if you look at the following page, http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.idiom.com/~wcs/duchamp.html+duchamp+anonymizer&hl=en you'll see that the picture reference is <IMG SRC=duchamp1.jpg> which expands to http://www.idiom.com/~wcs/duchamp1.jpg If you try to see if Google cached it anyway, by looking at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.idiom.com/~wcs/duchamp1.jpg it's not there.