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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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Seeing many comments here shitting on this decision by google, is this really that big of a deal? I've personally never used the cached feature of Google and if I ever needed to see a page that is currently down, it'd be via wayback machine. If nobody used the feature, why have it waste a ton worth of storage space? Feel free to prove me wrong though.
It was also useful when the page had changed inbetween google indexing it and now, so if you loaded the page and couldn't find the text you were searching for because it was deleted, you could find it on the cached page.