Internet Archive Reviews 73

TrustScore 3.5 out of 5

3.4

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was threatened by the staff and then suspended, so I brought this up in a long email and asked where in their rules it says you can be suspended for a simple question via email and then... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Love the Wayback Machine. It's pretty good, it doesn't save XML documents well which is something they could improve upon. They're all far too quick to remove sites from the Wayback Machine. This... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I love this website! Started reading books from 600 years ago and wow so much wisdom and knowledge that has been lost in time is mind blowing etc... This has become my new hobby and favorite website.... See more

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

the internet archive is one of the most fun pages you could ever just browse around on, you can see so much. There is only ONE flaw, website owners are allowed to remove themselves. Sure there are pro... See more

Company details

  1. Software company

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" It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of public-domain books.


Contact info

  • Clement Street 1115, 94118, San Francisco, United States

  • archive.org

3.4

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TrustScore 3.5 out of 5

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Good but not great site.

Internet Archive is a good site.In terms of it isn't too rights issues re tv shows,one major problem is it's very slow to gain views on uploads. You can wait days to get even one or two views sometimes.So it's frustrating in terms of that.If you aren't looking for instant hits and views though I would recommend this site overall.

3 July 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Useless Machine....

I make a lot of research on the internet and I often use Archive.org. But almost every time I use the Way Back Machine I get disappointed.

Mostly I see this message:

"Hrm.
The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.

This page is not available on the web

because of server error"

The stored websites are missing so much, I almost never can see the pictures and if I can see the pictures it is often just the thumbnail and a lot of links are broken. It should not be a difficult task to grab images?
I will look for another alternative.

1 December 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This page/"organisation" is absolute…

This page/"organisation" is absolute joke. Why would you have a biggest library if you can't control speed trafic and almost everything is unaccessible? Also, what is the point of donation if you won't get any privilege? To watch 1h30min video it takes 4 hours. Because you don't get a decent speet to buffer video even if you stop it for a while. Eventually you lost your plot and just switch it off. Very disappointed.

27 October 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Limited the requests

WOW! After getting a few million dollars from donations, you limit the request rate , great! This was a 10/10 service, but i hope it does not go to downhill....

22 February 2020
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

What a great find!

What a great find! Just by pure chance I stumbled across Archive.org and was just so excited to start searching the online archives. It took me a little while to get my bearings of how/what and where to start my searches (hence the 4 stars rather than 5) but I’m now a little more familiar with the process.......I have so many avenues of searching that I want to go down. Art is my main passion and that will be my most ‘trusted’ path to begin with.......my adventures await!

22 December 2019
Unprompted review
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