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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
submitted 9 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] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google is spelled Kagi now. :)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

No fucking way I'm paying a subscription to search something on the Internet. 5$ for 300 searches, lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Beyond that, the money is still going to Google, Yandex, Brave, Bing etc via API payments. If they actually created their own search engine that was any good I’d be more inclined to pay for access.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

Edit: They do claim to have their own small indexes (Teclis and TinyGem) that they sell API access to, but I’m doubtful it adds significant value.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Paying for the Reddit API would be cheaper. That's an impressively overpriced search engine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I have been looking at kagi but their pricing is definitely made to force people to buy the professional $10 package.

100 or even 300 searches/day would be unusable for me, you quickly spend 10 searches refining a query for something special, and when developing you do like 5-10 searches/hour.

A fair pricing model would be

  • $2/month for 1000 searches/day
  • $5/month for 5000 searches/day
  • $10/month for unlimited everything
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I split the duo plan with a friend and do annual and it's $6.30/month for unlimited searches.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

Oh shit, it's 5 dollars? That's like.... A cup of coffee. You are right, way too much, so much money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ad based search engines make almost $300 a year off their users

What disingenuous phrasing.

I'd be up for using a product like this, but their popcorn pricing and snark is really off-putting, so I'll never be using this service.