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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)

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Google Search's "cached" links have long been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed, but now the company is killing them off.

The feature has been appearing and disappearing for some people since December, and currently, we don't see any cache links in Google Search.

Cached links used to live under the drop-down menu next to every search result on Google's page.

As the Google web crawler scoured the Internet for new and updated webpages, it would also save a copy of whatever it was seeing.

That quickly led to Google having a backup of basically the entire Internet, using what was probably an uncountable number of petabytes of data.

In 2020, Google switched to mobile-by-default, so for instance, if you visit that cached Ars link from earlier, you get the mobile site.

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