Before I RTFA, I was wondering if this would be about trying to find a way to include Wayback Machine results in search. Searching the Wayback Machine is always such a nightmare, and wouldn't it be nice if your search turned up that long-dead 1997 web page that has the exact answer for what you're looking for...
(minor use case I had recently was I was trying to find old Japanese blogs for Tamagotchis, which I gather there were a ton of in the 90s but almost none survive today - imagine if I could get those instead of the 1,000,000 sites just trying to sell them to me)
They're likely only serving previously accessible domains already in their index as wayback machine links, which is neat, but doesn't really solve the problem of indexing the wayback machine in a broader sense.
Would be a very nice feature to have indeed, though the data is a bit too inaccessible to index as far as I can tell (even though I've not given it any serious effort, so maybe it is?)
I kinda consider that a feature and not a bug. If it were easier to find all the really deep stuff in the Wayback Machine, people would be trying to censor it all the time. I like being able to spear-fish my way into the deep shit by finding layers of URI references in other archived pages.
The Usenet was considered a better place to store data about a topic for a year than a website because the interactive format allowed other people to comment. There was only cgi guestbooks which pale in comparison to a newsreader. People didn’t think back then about keeping information around forever because books were still the primary way information was captured, retained and transferred
(minor use case I had recently was I was trying to find old Japanese blogs for Tamagotchis, which I gather there were a ton of in the 90s but almost none survive today - imagine if I could get those instead of the 1,000,000 sites just trying to sell them to me)