This is the best summary I could come up with:

SEO professionals could use it to debug their sites or even keep tabs on competitors, and it can also be an enormously helpful news gathering tool, giving reporters the ability to see exactly what information a company has added (or removed) from a website, and a way to see details that people or companies might be trying to scrub from the web.

Or, if a site is blocked in your region, Google’s cache can work as a great alternative to a VPN.

Here’s how the Cached button used to appear in search results back in 2021 versus what I’m seeing as of today:

The removal of Google’s cache links has been taking place gradually over the past couple of months and isn’t complete just yet.

In his tweet, Danny Sullivan confirmed that in addition to removing the links, the “cache:” search operator will also be going away “in the near future.”

In early 2021, Google developer relations engineer Martin Splitt said the cached view was a “basically unmaintained legacy feature.”

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