youfoundjake - 8:44 pm on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Bear with me as I don't have alot of info on this, but from a common sense point of view... It would seem that if archive.org has pages from your site going back a long time, that will lend itself a "trust" ranking based on not being one of the fly by night websites, but an actual business model that has withstood the test of time.
I think google, in its infinite wisdom (tongue in cheek) knowing that in the early days did not have everything index, may refer to the cached pages stored in archive.org, to the extent that it refers to the DMOZ listings.
I know that the top 3 SERPS for my industry have been in archive.org since january 1998. It helps that the top result is THE defacto website for my industry, but number 2, also goes back to 1998, and number 3 started in 2001.

I think it may be another assumption that if archive.org has pages from those 3 sites back that far, that once google broke away from standford to a standalone company, pages will have been indexed then as well. So in my humble opinion, there will be a footprint path from archive.org to google.com as well as some whois information thrown in that helps determine the calculation of worth for domain age, but how that fits into the algo as a whole, I would never presume to know, but would still imagine that the accumalation of those 3 would have SOME kind of impact.