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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
submitted 10 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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[–] gunslingerfry 82 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Google is the king of giving bullshit reasons to hide their true intent.

[–] grayman 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My guess is ads don't work in cached pages.

[–] DigitalFrank 9 points 10 months ago

This is the real reason. Google is an ad company, not a search engine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Just like that safetynet thing. They will write long pages about it, but won't admit they want to make custom android roms unusable for the average user.