Recovering Censored or Disappeared Information

by johnk Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2001 at 11:22 PM

In times of crisis, information sometimes "dissappears" under pressure from governments, enemies, and even allies. on the web, it's sometimes possible to recover this vanished data. Instructions below.

The Google search engine maintains old copies of web pages in cache (storage space for resources). When you do a search, the results will show two links, one of which is labeled "Cache"; clicking on that brings up a stored copy of the page.

To recover an entire website, use the "site" feature of Google. In the search box, type "site:www.sitedomain.com" and follow it with a search term that's likely to bring up all the pages. For example, this search works:

site:supportersofshariah.org islam

Then, save out each page.

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