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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] 12 points 10 months ago

Internet Archive is essential now. I used to use Google Cached for when IA failed. All researchers are now losing that resiliency.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Such bullshit.

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

Cached pages haven't worked on many sites for several years already.

And for specific types of sites, it 100% still is needed and a great tool.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Was it even still around? I can think of a few times in the past few months where I've tried to find the cached link to a google result and failed. Most recently just two days ago, when a site I wanted to use was down for maintenance.

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

Google is spelled Kagi now. :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

No, there are still use cases for it. I usually use it to retrieve web pages from sites that get incorrectly blocked by the firewall at work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried using it three days ago and had to resort to the Wayback Machine instead. Thanks Google!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven't seen that available for literally years. I thought they killed it long ago.