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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ironically just yesterday I needed Google Cache because a page I needed to read was down and I couldn't find the option anymore.

Are we going to need to go back to personal web crawlers to back-up information we need? I hate today's internet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

It's a browser extension that links to a dozen online caching services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks, sounds very handy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, tried it on Firefox Android but not sure it is working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's called "Web Archives", you can install it from the Firefox official extensions.

To use it you open the menu while on a page, go to Addons > Web Archives and select a search engine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Ran across the same problem recently. Ended up using Bing, of all things lol