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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)

submitted 9 months ago by d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] NoRodent@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

By they way, I just found out that they removed the button, but typing cache:www.example.com into Google still redirects you to the cached version (if it exists). But who knows for how long. And there's the question whether they'll continue to cache new pages.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

they've broken / ignored every modifier besides site: in the last few years, god knows how long that'll work

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Quotes are fucking awful now. You have to change the search terms to verbatim now which takes way fucking longer. Google has enshittified almost everything. I'm just waiting for them to ruin Maps.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

Remember when Google Now was intelligently selected data and not an endless scroll of paywalled news articles?

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

I hope they only kill the announced feature but keep the cache part.
Just today I had to use it because some random rss aggregator website had the search result I wanted but redirected me somewhere completely different...

[-] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

My guess is that a cached page is just a byproduct when the page is indexed by the crawler. The need a local copy to parse text, links etc. and see the difference to the previous page.

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