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I hope that you have discovered the Wayback Machine [www.archive.org] by now--that way-cool collection of 30 billion (yes, billion) Web pages dating back to 1996. It's a splendid tool for tracking down material that was removed from a Web site, finding out what a company used to say about itself, and getting a chuckle at the funky-looking Web sites from the early days of HTML coding.
But one of the big limitations of the Wayback Machine has been access points--the only way you could retrieve an archived page was by the URL. If you were tracking down the Web page of a defunct company and you didn't know its Web address, you were out of luck. (OK, nit-pickers--you could...
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