EDIT: I've noticed all the replies and I'd like to acknowledge them. Unfortunately I feel very stupid for not screenshotting what I saw when I searched one hour ago. I now see 62,900 results, and I can load up to page 6. I can't prove that I was not able to load page 2 before, but it's true.<p>My original comment remains unedited below.<p>--<p>For a concrete demonstration of pathological de-ranking, do a query for "site:web.archive.org".<p>I get "59,000 results" on page 1, but page 2 will never load!<p>There <i>are</i> a few results, which proves that a) web.archive.org are not using robots.txt or other blocking techniques, and b) that Google's infrastructure is inhaling content. But it's invisible.<p>Think about how sad this is - once a site goes dead, it's offline, <i>even though the content is still publicly accessible.</i> If only that context was indexed using a decent search engine.<p>Practically speaking, I totally acknowledge that archived content is complex to surface; sites can be pulled offline because content needs to be disappeared for any number of reasons, etc. I recognize the general difficulty of getting this right. So I'm <i>not</i> _really_ arguing "if only this were surfaced", because it's unfair to - I'm more saying "hey look, this is what it looks like when something has been completely killed," as a demonstrable and extreme datapoint.