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.”

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    9 months ago

    Literally yesterday. What source is sufficient to tell you first hand that I used the feature yesterday?

    You want proof that it’s useful. Go look at waybackmachine. Literally millions of users using a cached web page feature.

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      9 months ago

      I also literally used it yesterday, mostly because my work has an insanely over the top site blocking situation, and rather then having to input (and likely get a rejection) to allow the site, cached page usually works good and gets me the info I need.

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        9 months ago

        That is exactly why I use it. I need to access pages for work, our internet security is ridiculously overdone and so many sites don’t load… but the cached versions do. Fml

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      9 months ago

      Photo / visual evidence would be fine, I am not picky. I would just like to be sure you are telling the truth, a lot of fraud on the internet nowadays 😒😒