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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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[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 48 points 9 months ago

Literally yesterday. What source is sufficient to tell you first hand that I used the feature yesterday?

You want proof that it's useful. Go look at waybackmachine. Literally millions of users using a cached web page feature.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago

I also literally used it yesterday, mostly because my work has an insanely over the top site blocking situation, and rather then having to input (and likely get a rejection) to allow the site, cached page usually works good and gets me the info I need.

[-] Kite@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago

That is exactly why I use it. I need to access pages for work, our internet security is ridiculously overdone and so many sites don't load... but the cached versions do. Fml

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