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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
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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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[-] gunslingerfry@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

Google is the king of giving bullshit reasons to hide their true intent.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 1 year ago

Just like that safetynet thing. They will write long pages about it, but won't admit they want to make custom android roms unusable for the average user.

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