Google flushes cached search results forever – The Register
Google has stopped offering links to cached versions of web pages alongside search results.
A Friday Xeet from the Google Search Liaison Twitter/X account, which is run by a chap named Danny Sullivan, responded to netizens’ queries about the absence of links to cached results, confirmed they’ve gone, and offered an explanation.
“Yes, it’s been removed,” the account stated. “I know, it’s sad. I’m sad too. It’s one of our oldest features. But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”
He’s right: cached links made a valuable difference in the dialup age. They remain useful today – The Register often consults them as tech companies often overwrite or delete pages. We sometime enter the string "cache:" into Google search specifically to do so, as that syntax produces cached results. Sadly that’s going away, too.
Happily, if Sullivan has his way,…
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