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How to Find Web Pages That Have Gone Missing

Biff Barnes

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Have you ever found just the online source you are looking for, copied a link into your files, and tried to come back to it later only to find the page missing? Frustrating! It feels like you have run into a brick wall, but, in fact, there are several ways to find web pages as they used to exist.

Many people know about using the Google cached pages to find a missing page. Other have used the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive site to find their to a missing source to a source.

Search Engine Showdown provides a very useful list in a post titled Finding Old Web Pages which gives you information on a variety of less well known tools to help you find web pages that have gone missing.

If you have a favorite tool for finding missing pages, please share it below.