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.”
No need. Sundar is bad enough as is.
Internet Archive is essential now. I used to use Google Cached for when IA failed. All researchers are now losing that resiliency.
Enshitification strikes again. Cached doesn’t make money and maybe reduces adclicks so it’s gone. This benefits Google but not users in any way whatsoever.
didn’t that happen like years ago? or maybe because I am using Firefox, but I haven’t seen the button for the cached website for a while now
Absolute cunts
