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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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One of Google Search's oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the "Cached" button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they're no longer required.

"It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Google's Danny Sullivan wrote. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."

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[–] [email protected] 188 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well that really sucks because it was often the only way to actually find the content on the page that the Google results "promised". For numerous reasons - sometimes the content simply changes, gets deleted or is made inaccessible because of geo-fencing or the site is straight up broken and so on.

Yes, there's archive.org but believe it or not, not everything is there.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

Or locked behind 100 pages of unnecessarily paginated content. Seriously, one of the best features that a webpage has over a physical printed page is the ability to search it for what you were looking for... smh:-(.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We must archive all the things

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I will archive you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I would love to archive the comment on archive.org but it seems like a bit of a spammy way to do that...