Alison, an analyst in an XYZ organization, wants to retrieve information about a company's website from the time of its inception as well as the removed information from the target website. What…

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Options

• AAlison should use SmartWhois to extract the required website information.
• BAlison should use https://archive.org to extract the required website information.
• CAlison should run the Web Data Extractor tool to extract the required website information.
• DAlison should recover cached pages of the website from the Google search engine cache to

• B
  89% (16)
• C
  6% (1)
• D
  6% (1)

Explanation

Option B is correct because the Wayback Machine at https://archive.org is a digital archive that crawls and stores historical snapshots of websites dating back to their inception, making it the ideal tool for retrieving both current and removed content from a target site - exactly what Alison needs.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (SmartWhois) is a WHOIS lookup tool used to find domain registration details (owner, registrar, dates), not historical page content.
• C (Web Data Extractor) scrapes live website data such as emails and links from the current version of a site; it has no access to removed or historical content.
• D (Google Cache) only stores a recent single snapshot of a page for a short period - it does not provide historical records going back to a site's inception or preserve removed content long-term.

Memory tip: Think of archive.org as a time machine for websites - "archive" implies history, and the Wayback Machine literally lets you "go back" to any point in a site's life. If the question mentions historical, inception, or removed content, the answer is almost always the Wayback Machine.

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