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Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for saving pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.Yes this is a lot like yesterday’s tip, except for archiving a page, rather than looking it up. For example if you try looking up a page in the Internet Archive and it’s not there.Or if you find an “interesting” page, and want to blog it later, you may want to save a copy of it in the Internet Archive as you are seeing it today, because when you look later it may have changed (or gone away).I used to do this by typing "https://web.archive.org/save/" into the browser address bar and then pasting the link I want to save in the archive.Again this is not really a “search engine”, however Firefox’s search engine shortcuts simplifies this greatly (less typing).Here’s how to create a save shortcut for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button4. enter…

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