Megalodon (website)
Japanese on-demand web citation service
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Megalodon (Japanese: ウェブ魚拓}, Hepburn: webu gyotaku; "web gyotaku") is an on demand web citation service based in Japan.[3] It is owned by Affility.
 Screenshot of the home page on 22 February 2026 | |
| Available in | Japanese |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Owner | Affility Co., Ltd.[1] |
| URL | megalodon |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 5 August 2005[2] |
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.[4]
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.[5]
Megalodon does not archive sites which include a noindex or noarchive tag in the robots.txt file.[6]
