Google confirms retirement of cache links in search — but they may eventually return in a new form – BetaNews
Google has decided to retire a useful and much-loved feature of its search engine. The ‘cache’ option used to appear as a link in a search result, giving the option of accessing a previously cached version of a page, but it was removed recently.
For now, the feature remains accessible using the search format cache:domain, i.e. cache:betanews.com, but this option is going to be killed off too. There are hopes that the option to view cached versions of web pages may be restored, perhaps using the Internet Archive, but this is yet to be set in stone.
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It was late last year that users started to notice that the link to access cached pages was no longer visible in search results. Search Engine Land monitored the situation and reached…
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