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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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."

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[–] pastaPersona 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

It is only baffling if you still think that Google's aim is to help people. At one point they were trying to gain market share and so that was true. It is not anymore.

[–] _number8_ 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ostensibly it takes a lot of space to cache that much data, but seeing as they own youtube this should be nothing in comparison

[–] Emerald 3 points 9 months ago

i would guess they have it cached still anyways.