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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Since when did you use this feature? Please cite a source

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Literally yesterday. What source is sufficient to tell you first hand that I used the feature yesterday?

You want proof that it’s useful. Go look at waybackmachine. Literally millions of users using a cached web page feature.

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I also literally used it yesterday, mostly because my work has an insanely over the top site blocking situation, and rather then having to input (and likely get a rejection) to allow the site, cached page usually works good and gets me the info I need.

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That is exactly why I use it. I need to access pages for work, our internet security is ridiculously overdone and so many sites don’t load… but the cached versions do. Fml

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Photo / visual evidence would be fine, I am not picky. I would just like to be sure you are telling the truth, a lot of fraud on the internet nowadays 😒😒

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Doosh bagg

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Please cite a source

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I last used the feature to view deleted reddit posts.

Another time I used something similar (the wayback machine) to view long gone websites about a postcard

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Like a couple of times a year at least. Faster and easier than going to the way back machine to get a copy

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I’ve used it three times today. Site down, geo-blocked, and a forum post with info I needed deleted.

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So ignorant, if you’ve had to do any digital research, you know these tools intimately

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You are a source. I am a source.

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