# Internet Archive 2026: World's Largest Web Library

> Set the Internet Archive as your default search engine to explore 1 trillion+ archived webpages. Use the Wayback Machine for total digital preservation and web history discovery through 2026. Access the world’s oldest, most famous web library.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/internet-archive-search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/internet-archive-search)

## Overview

- **ID:** `internet-archive-search`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Handmade Internet Treasures
- **Category:** search-tools,bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 478
- **Weekly downloads:** 10
- **Rating:** 4.00 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-23
- **First published:** 2025-07-20
- **Size:** 11 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/internet-archive-search/)
- **Website:** [https://ko-fi.com/handmadeinternettreasures](https://ko-fi.com/handmadeinternettreasures)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/internet-archive-search/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/internet-archive-search/privacy/)

## Description

According to The Internet Archive:
<blockquote>Most societies place importance on preserving artifacts of their culture and heritage. Without such artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures. Our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form. The Archive's mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars.

The Internet Archive provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".

The Internet Archive has a permanent record of internet with the aim being to preserve as much of the public web as possible. The Internet Archive also oversees numerous book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts.</blockquote>
Watch a short two minutes video of The Internet Archive's first crawl from the year 1996: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/4f462b079ee2659c3ff12d5be14c525c3df42770132233d86b02a726181e86bd/https%3A//archive.org/details/wayback-machine-1996/The%2BWayback%2BMachine%27s%2BFirst%2BCrawl%2B1996%2B--with%2Bsubtitles.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/wayback-machine-1996/The+Wayback+Machine's+First+Crawl+1996+--with+subtitles.mp4</a> 

Use @ia or @internetarchive to search on Internet Archive directly from your search cum address bar.

Make Internet Archive - the Oldest, Active and Most Famous Web Archives Leader - as your search engine for 2026 to discover website and webpage archives and so on upto 2026

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## Rankings

- #5,139 — Overall
- #169 — Bookmarks
- #14 — library
- #23 — internet
- #24 — spyware
- #64 — interest

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Can change search providers, which could redirect searches to malicious sites, posing moderate risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/internet-archive-search)