[hugh4life]

Extremely lame article...

I remember back 10 years ago either google or the internet archive had a temporary search engine that went through the wayback machine... and a lot of interesting things were found. It was through this IIRC that it was discovered that Obama filled out a questionnaire in 1996 saying he supported same-sex marriage when that was not his public position at the time. I've always wondered why that search engine went away and who currently has access to do such searches.

[5-]

You appear to be remembering Google publishing their 2001 search index that was briefly available in October 2008: https://www.cnet.com/news/who-were-you-in-2001-check-googles...

Extremely useful thing, I wonder how the legal side of things was managed, even for such a short exposure.

[naringas]

> who currently has access to do such searches.

my guess is intelligence agencies do