Megalodon (website) explained

Megalodon
Language:	Japanese
Country Of Origin:	Japan
Owner:	Affility Co., Ltd.^[1]
Commercial:	Yes
Launch Date:	28 June 2005

Megalodon (Japanese: ウェブ魚拓, "web gyotaku") is an on demand web citation service based in Japan.^[2] It is owned by Affility.

Megalodon's server can be searched for "web gyotaku" or copies of web pages, by prefixing any URL with "gyo.tc"; the process checks the query against other services as well, including Google's cached pages and Mementos.^[3]

On 12 November 2010, Affility revealed that all files copied before the first half of 2007 were lost because of a malfunction in their backup process.

Megalodon does not archive sites which include a "noindex" or "noarchive" tag in the robots.txt file.^[4]

See also

• List of Web archiving initiatives
• Wayback Machine
• archive.today

External links

• • Affility's website

Notes and References

1. Web site: ja:株式会社アフィリティーの情報 . Information on Affility . https://www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp/henkorireki-johoto.html?selHouzinNo=3370601002388 . 2023-10-18 . www.houjin-bangou.nta.go.jp . ja.
2. Web site: 2013-05-05 . ja:ウェブページを保存して閲覧できる、魚拓関連ウェブサービス10選 . live . https://archive.today/20170916022114/https://japan.cnet.com/article/35031581/ . 2017-09-16 . 2023-10-18 . CNET Japan . ja.
3. Web site: ja:ウェブ魚拓 . live . https://archive.today/20210721221029/https://gyo.tc/ . 2021-07-21 . 2023-10-18 . Megalodon . ja.
4. Web site: 2017-04-07 . ja:noarchive対応などにつきまして . https://web.archive.org/web/20170523083928/http://www.affility.co.jp/archives/1504 . 2017-05-23 . 2023-10-18 . Affility Co., Ltd . ja.