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Online investigation for journalists

If it was ever online, we can find it.

Deleted pages, old versions of websites, who owned a domain and when, where a claim first appeared. We’ve been finding what the web has forgotten since the early 2010s, with tools we built ourselves. If it existed and was available, we find it, or we tell you it’s impossible. Guaranteed.

Send us a brief

What we find

Six things journalists ask us for most. If yours isn’t here, ask anyway.

Deleted web pages and old versions of websites

Archived copies from the Wayback Machine and other web archives, search engine caches, our own crawl data and the copies other services kept. When the Wayback Machine has nothing, this is the alternative.

Who owned a domain, and when
Deleted tweets, posts and profiles
Where a claim, image or document first appeared
Who is behind an anonymous website
Tools built for your investigation

How it works

Three steps, built around your deadline.

1. Brief

Tell us what you need to find and when you need it.

2. Search

We run the archives, the tools and our own data, by hand where it matters.

3. Report

What we found, how we found it, and what we couldn’t, so it stands up to scrutiny.

Why ask an SEO agency?

Finding things on the web is our day job. Domain history, link archives, crawl data and caches are the raw material of technical SEO, and we have paid for the subscriptions and built the tools since the early 2010s. Add AI and a group of more than 30 developers, and there is very little that was once public that we cannot get back.

We only work with information that is or was publicly available. We don’t break into accounts, buy stolen data or pretend to be someone else.

Questions journalists ask

Straight answers before you send a brief.

Can you find a web page that has been deleted?

Usually. Pages leave copies behind in web archives, caches, feeds and on the sites that quoted or scraped them. We check all of them, not just the Wayback Machine.

Is there an alternative to the Wayback Machine?
Can you find out who owns or owned a website?
Can you recover deleted tweets or posts?
What does “guaranteed” mean?
Is this legal?
How fast can you turn it round?

Tell us what you’re looking for

A line or two on what you need, where you’ve already looked and your deadline.

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