The Internet Archive: How It Works

May 26, 2016

I have noted that the interface for the Internet Archive is interesting. For me, the system is almost unusable.

I read “The Technology Behind the World’s Worst DVR.” I think the write up does a good job of explaining some of the challenges the system presents to the developers and to the users. I learned that the political ad archive works like this:

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Okay, WordPress. I am a bit fuzzy about the other icons, however.

The good news appears in this statement:

Over the coming months we are working to make the system more accurate, and exploring ways to get it so that it can automagically identify newly released political ads without any need for manual entry.

Worth monitoring.

Stephen E Arnold, May 26, 2016

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