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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. (arstechnica.com)
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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.::Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

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[โ€“] wosat 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be clear, Google will still be storing copies of the pages they crawl. They just won't be making those copies available to end users.

[โ€“] BananaTrifleViolin 8 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. This is just locking off users access and is an example of enshittification. 0 benefit to users but benefits to Google (more click through to sponsored links, and blocking AI content crawlers probably)