Internet Archive is essential now. I used to use Google Cached for when IA failed. All researchers are now losing that resiliency.
Such bullshit.
Cached pages haven't worked on many sites for several years already.
And for specific types of sites, it 100% still is needed and a great tool.
Was it even still around? I can think of a few times in the past few months where I've tried to find the cached link to a google result and failed. Most recently just two days ago, when a site I wanted to use was down for maintenance.
I haven't seen that available for literally years. I thought they killed it long ago.
Google sucks.
I tried using it three days ago and had to resort to the Wayback Machine instead. Thanks Google!
No, there are still use cases for it. I usually use it to retrieve web pages from sites that get incorrectly blocked by the firewall at work.
JFC...at this point I may as well stand up a self hosted search engine.
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