Cached Web Pages

May 27, 2008 8:15 AM

Is there any way to find a cache page of a website that was taken down within the past day? I have tried the major search engines with no luck...

The site is fileinc.com. fileinc.biz is the same site and is still available, but I'd like to get the .com page as well. Any google-fu ricks that I am nt aware of?

posted by kjl291 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Do you know anything about what was on the site? For example, if there's an exact phrase that you know was there, you could seach Google for that, and it might give you a cached version of the site.
posted by Dec One at 8:36 AM on May 27, 2008

Are you quite sure that fileinc.com is the right site? You can find it at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine as far back as 2003, and it looked the same then (green and "coming soon" text) as it does now. Also, it looks like fileinc.com is registered to a Tokyo company, but the .biz is a person in South Carolina, so it seems unlikely they would have had the same content.
posted by pocams at 8:36 AM on May 27, 2008

In 6 months, it will most likely be on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (modulo robots.txt, nofollows, and takedown notices).
posted by zippy at 9:29 AM on May 27, 2008

fileinc.biz.nyud.net is the coral cache version of fileinc.biz - handy when a site disappears, if anyone had visited it using the cache before it went down.

fileinc.com seems to have been as it is now for some time - you could try the cacheview plugin for firefox which allows to check a number of major cache systems for a given tab.
posted by ArkhanJG at 10:03 AM on May 27, 2008