2.23.2006
Overcome Down Websites
My English teacher just doesn't understand. America's pasttime is not researching on the internet for an English project, it's baseball. He also fails to understand the notion of procrastination. By definition, teenagers must wait until 10pm the night before a project is due to start it. Thus, I find myself frantically browsing various websites in the middle of the night. Unfortunatly, fate says that a website upgrades its servers in the middle of a weeknight, the night before my project is due. Websites I have bookmarked do not work. I'm in trouble, the deadline is fast approaching.
Luckily there are two tricks from the lovely people at google to help me finish my essays. The first is the Cache. It's the little button in the corner under Google search links. What does it do? It displays a snapshot of the website that was taken when its spiders crawled it (the technical spiders here, no daddy long legs). Click it and it will give you the page, but it may be a month or two old. Usually this will not matter for articles contents don't change spontaneously. Click it and you are on your way to a very ugly page, but it will have the text information.
The second helper is to find sites that link to the article you are trying to find. Usually with the link will come a summary of the article, which can be useful. To find what pages link to the page you are trying to access open up good ol' google.com again. type in "link:" then the website URL and press enter. There you go, the list of sites will appear. (For example "link:www.google.com")
Hopefully this helps some poor teen pulling an all-nighter.
Luckily there are two tricks from the lovely people at google to help me finish my essays. The first is the Cache. It's the little button in the corner under Google search links. What does it do? It displays a snapshot of the website that was taken when its spiders crawled it (the technical spiders here, no daddy long legs). Click it and it will give you the page, but it may be a month or two old. Usually this will not matter for articles contents don't change spontaneously. Click it and you are on your way to a very ugly page, but it will have the text information.
The second helper is to find sites that link to the article you are trying to find. Usually with the link will come a summary of the article, which can be useful. To find what pages link to the page you are trying to access open up good ol' google.com again. type in "link:" then the website URL and press enter. There you go, the list of sites will appear. (For example "link:www.google.com")
Hopefully this helps some poor teen pulling an all-nighter.
