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Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Another useful feature for power users that Google is killing.

They don't care about us that day they we have a problem and the solution is in a now defunct site. That doesn't generate revenue. "When People search on Google they need to find what they need on a click on the ads", the shareholders are saying

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[–] pirat 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you figure out how to search "correctly" on SearXNG instances, some of them are pretty good (though they source part of their results from google). That's how I search most of the time nowadays. I've found a favourite instance and a few backups. My most important advice is: to change the default language from "auto" to "en", and only change it to some other locale for results specifically in that language/country.

[–] gedaliyah 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I understand correctly, isn't that just a meta search that is using corporate results as the back end?

[–] pirat 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is indeed, but in my experience it's somehow better than the corporate backends at presenting the "correct" results to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

this has been my experience with paulgo.io with the exception of images, which i sometimes have to use google for