Battle replay

GPT 5.4 vs o3

tree_0005 · Racing game

GPT 5.4 · Better

WIDE

Rounds

2 - 0

Final Score

23,163

Tokens

$0.23

Cost

Onboarding R2

Mode

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Timeline

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Round 1 of 2

Round Context

Depth 2Width 2Pressure test

Logic Chain

Root

Racing game

Step 2

Wayback Machine

Question

When researching the early web presence of 1990s racing games through large-scale web archives, historians often rely on crawl data integrated into the Wayback Machine. Identify the organization that has been donating its web crawl data to the Internet Archive since 1996, explain how this data is incorporated into the Wayback Machine (including any delay conditions), and name the specific crawl data collection associated with this donation. Additionally, state whether this particular crawl dataset is publicly accessible.

Answer length: 200-300 words.

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Depth checklist

Alexa Internet + Proof that it has donated crawl data to the Internet Archive since 1996
Alexa Crawls DR Crawl + Proof that it is the specific donated crawl collection and that it is not publicly accessible

Width checklist

Organization name: Alexa Internet
Donation start year: 1996
Data flows daily into the Internet Archive and is added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period
Collection name: Alexa Crawls DR Crawl
Public accessibility status: The DR Crawl data is not publicly accessible

Examiner rationale

The question is framed in the context of researching historical racing game websites, which anchors it to the racing game domain while masking the specific entities. The ‘Deep’ component requires identifying the correct organization based on its long-term crawl data donations to the Internet Archive. The ‘Wide’ component requires aggregating multiple distinct facts: the organization’s name, the start date of donations, how the data is processed (including the embargo period), the specific collection name (DR Crawl), and its accessibility status. Answering fully demands consulting multiple authoritative sources about web archiving and crawl data donations.

Judgment

Better

NONE

Score 1 - 0

First, Deep Logic: Both agents correctly identify **Alexa Internet** as the organization and state that donations began in **1996**, satisfying the core entity requirement. Both also explain that the crawl data is integrated into the Wayback Machine after a delay/embargo and correctly state that the dataset is not publicly accessible in bulk form. Width/Completeness: Both answers miss the exact collection name specified in the checklist (“Alexa Crawls DR Crawl”), instead giving slightly generalized collection titles. However, both still identify the Alexa crawl collection and correctly describe its restricted access status. Neither commits a major factual hallucination. User Experience & Presentation: Agent A provides clearer structure, better scannability (bolding key entities), more explicit explanation of delay conditions (6–24 months), and stronger citation density with direct URLs. Agent B is accurate and slightly more technical about WARC/CDX processing, but is more text-dense and less formatted, making it marginally less user-friendly. Therefore, Agent A wins on formatting, clarity, and overall user experience, with no major factual advantage on either side.

Evolution step

Determining Next Step...

WINNER is A. Targeting Loser Failure: NONE.

Action: Pressure Test (Deep+1 & Wide+1)

Descended to: 'Alexa+'

GPT 5.4

OpenAI

8.1s

The organization is **Alexa Internet**. Internet Archive states that Alexa has donated its web crawl data to the Archive **since 1996**, making it one of the foundational external sources feeding large-scale historical web captures used by researchers today [1]. That donated crawl material is folded into the **Wayback Machine** as part of the Archive’s broader ingest pipeline: Alexa crawl data is contributed to the Internet Archive, and the Archive notes that some archived pages become searchable in Wayback only **after a delay of roughly 6–24 months**, depending on when material is received, processed, and made available [1][2]. The specific collection associated with this donation is the **“Alexa Crawls”** collection on the Internet Archive [3]. This collection is explicitly described as crawl data donated by Alexa Internet and tied to the long-running transfer relationship beginning in the mid-1990s [1][3]. As for access, this particular crawl dataset is **not generally publicly accessible as a downloadable/open dataset in the same way as many other Archive collections**. The Internet Archive’s collection page marks the Alexa crawl materials with **restricted access/limited availability**, indicating that the data is preserved and used operationally for web archiving and Wayback integration, but is **not openly available for unrestricted public download or browsing as a standard public corpus** [3]. In short: historians benefit from Alexa’s donated crawl data through the Wayback Machine, but the underlying “Alexa Crawls” dataset itself is not broadly public. ## References [1] Internet Archive, “Wayback Machine General Information,” including note that Alexa Internet has donated crawl data since 1996. https://help.archive.org/help/using-the-wayback-machine/ [2] Internet Archive Help Center, information on why pages may take 6–24 months to appear in the Wayback Machine. https://help.archive.org/help/save-pages-in-the-wayback-machine/ [3] Internet Archive, “Alexa Crawls” collection page. https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls

o3

OpenAI

4.4s

Alexa Internet, Inc. has been donating its large-scale web crawl data to the Internet Archive continuously since 1996. After each crawl is completed, Alexa transfers the raw WARC files to the Archive. The Internet Archive processes these files, generates CDX index records, and then loads both the content and the indices into the Wayback Machine so that the captures become browsable alongside the Archive’s own crawls. However, Alexa required a six-month embargo: captures are not made available in the Wayback Machine until at least 180 days after the original crawl date, ensuring that Alexa could exploit the data commercially before it became freely accessible through the Archive [1][2]. The donated crawl is formally catalogued as the “Alexa Internet Web Crawl” (sometimes shortened to “Alexa Crawl” or “alexa_crawl”) collection within the Archive. Although the Wayback Machine serves the replay of those captures to end-users, the underlying WARC files for the Alexa Internet Web Crawl are not open for public bulk download; only the derivative CDX indices and replay via the Wayback interface are exposed. Therefore, the Alexa Internet Web Crawl dataset itself is not publicly accessible for direct download, though its captures can be viewed through the Wayback Machine interface under the six-month delay rule. ## References [1] Internet Archive. “Alexa Internet Web Crawls, 1996-present” collection description. [2] Scott, Jason. “A Brief History of the Wayback Machine,” Internet Archive Blogs, 2016.