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By they way, I just found out that they removed the button, but typing cache:www.example.com into Google still redirects you to the cached version (if it exists). But who knows for how long. And there's the question whether they'll continue to cache new pages.

Never used it/realized its use. Lament for others who did.

Google is spelled Kagi now. :)

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.

At this rate Search will end up in the Google graveyard

Google well on their way on their uber-dick speedrun

This is the search engine equivalent of aiming a carbine at your feet and shooting yourself with a .50 cal round.

Cached pages were something I found myself using quite a bit and them going may be the push needed for me to use an alternative search engine.

Sounds like someone's after storage savings.

The enshittification will continue until quarterly reports improve.

Just kidding, it will continue regardless.

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.

Well that really sucks because it was often the only way to actually find the content on the page that the Google results "promised". For numerous reasons - sometimes the content simply changes, gets deleted or is made inaccessible because of geo-fencing or the site is straight up broken and so on.

Yes, there's archive.org but believe it or not, not everything is there.

In a shocking turn of events, google decided once again to make their namesake service worse for everyone.

Legitimately baffling, keeping this feature doesn’t really seem like it would impact anyone except those that use it, while removing it not only impacts those people that already use it, but those who would potentially have reason to in the future.

Cannot think of a single benefit to removing a feature like this.

They really have just given up on being a good search engine at this point huh?

It has barely existed for years anyway. Anyone can remove the Google caching from their website and most major websites and many small ones do.

Now I just have an archive.org extension to do the se thing basically.

JFC...at this point I may as well stand up a self hosted search engine.

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.

there are half a dozen still very good reasons to keep this feature and one not to: lost ad revenue

assholes

I find this very useful to read paywalled articles that Google has managed to index!

OK, I see why they might want to get rid of it.

We that's some shit. I often use that to get info off of pages that I won't be clicking on normally.

That's bs, it's one of the best features Google has and they've been ruining it. Wayback machine wished it could be that comprehensive.