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Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead. (www.seroundtable.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

...and everybody was shocked! Absolutely shocked.

[–] General_Effort 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shocked? You'd think all the people outraged at having their websites scraped would be delighted. That's probably the real reason for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's not the scraping itself, but the purpose of the scraping, that can be problematic. There are good reasons for public sites to allow scraping.

[–] General_Effort 2 points 3 months ago

I have the distinct impression that a number of people would object to the purpose of re-hosting their content as part of a commercial service, especially one run by Google.

Anyway, now no one has to worry about Google helping people bypass their robots.txt or IP-blocks or whatever counter-measures they take. And Google doesn't have to worry about being sued. Next stop: The Wayback Machine.