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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
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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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[-] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago

Seeing many comments here shitting on this decision by google, is this really that big of a deal? I've personally never used the cached feature of Google and if I ever needed to see a page that is currently down, it'd be via wayback machine. If nobody used the feature, why have it waste a ton worth of storage space? Feel free to prove me wrong though.

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[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

No need. Sundar is bad enough as is.

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Never used it/realized its use. Lament for others who did.

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