The Internet is an amazing gift to all people, Billions
of websites are in it to provide information in
digital format. The thing which, makes people sad is
when web pages are returning 404 error (i.e.
removed pages or broken links) which they visited
earlier. Most of us might come across this error. If
you are student or researcher then the case is worst
you might badly need that information in that lost
page for your project or work. Now there are hassle
free ways to recover deleted web pages from the
web
How to recover deleted web pages
There are two ways to view lost pages. I also wanna
make sure that you can’t download any files from the
server. You can only view the content in that page
1. Search engine (Cached web pages)
If you are looking for a page which is removed
recently then search engine will be a good solution.
All three major search engines Google, Bing and
Yahoo holds the cached copy of the web page which
has been deleted recently. Here what you have to do
to get the page back
1. Visit Google or any other search enginePaste the
removed page link and search
2. Paste the removed page link and search. In the
result, you can find the link in green below with a
blue heading of the page. You can find down arrow
with green link. Click on the arrow you’ll see the
‘cached’ option
3. In the result, you can find the link in green below
with a blue heading of the page. You can find down
arrow with green link. Click on the arrow you’ll see
the ‘cached’ option
4. Click on the cached option. It will redirect you to
the cached copy of the web page from which you can
recover the information which you need
5. If you find any trouble in viewing the page, click
on the text only version to see only text content
from the page
You can also use this feature for comparing how the
content is updated or changed when the web page is
not removed
2. Archive (websites archive)
So you can recover web pages which are removed
recently with the help of Search engine caches. What
about pages which were removed several weeks or
months or years ago? So we definitely need an
alternate solution. Here is an internet archive
website to save the day. Archive website is an
archive wayback machine which contains more than
435 billion of archived web sites and web pages. You
can view, how the page looked like in all over the
past. Moreover, it is the perfect solution for
researchers who are looking for the page information
which was removed several years ago
Here is a page which I visited in last year July month
but it was deleted a couple of months ago. Now I’m
going to view that page with the help of way back
machine
1. Visit Archive website
2. Paste the URL in the browse history box and
search (i.e. browse history)
3.Now select the year, month and date which you
accessed earlier or choose any approximate date in
the month (I selected July 4, 2014. I remember that
the page was accessible whole month)Now click on
the date and you’ll able to see the content on the
deleted page
4. Now click on the date and you’ll able to see the
content on the deleted page
So this is the perfect way to view the lost web pages
3. Save web pages to offline
This is not a recovery method. It is more like a
precaution. If you know that a web page would be
deleted or cannot accessed during peak time. It is
better to save the web page to offline so that you
can read the content whenever you want. Save pages
with chrome browser
Hope it is helpful. If you know any other way to
recover deleted web pages or any other internet
archive websites please let me in the comments below
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