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
Google is actively working to close off the internet.
Thinking Google is “the internet” is probably part of the problem.
100% this. Google is killing Google. We just need to embrace that death and start using and promoting better alternatives.
Ecoisa!
They just planted 200 million trees.
I’ve heard of Ecosia, but I’ve never heard of how exactly their model works. It sounds to good to be true, so I’ve always written it off as bullshit.
Ahh yes, the classic “it’s not 100% good, so it’s 100% bad” thinking
More like “a company doesn’t do something out of the kindness of their own heart” thinking.
Maybe they are fantastic, but the idea of a company doing something positive for the world just by me using their product (for free) sounds outlandish.
Here are their financial reports.
https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/
Kagi is nice
The forest grows out, gets fat with wood and brush and stuff, then it all dies to a fire or whatever. Something new always rises, and I’m excited for the new growth
Google and netflix and stuff will eventually push people away and people will find something new to do with their time.
They already kinda have by manipulating search results to fit their best interests.
Whispers: “they’re trying to build a prison…” DUN DUN DUN DUNDUNDUNDUN
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They still need to cache them anyway when they’re crawling the pages.
It wasn’t a full backup like archive.org but a broken text only view
they made billions of profits last year. they are very far from loosing money.
I use cached pages a lot, thanks Google.
Same. All the time actually. To get around annoying work blocks, or site vpn blocks (looking at you reddit when i actually have to venture to your shite hole for a specific tech question) or simply see content as it was crawled. Internet archive was always my primary but google cached i used alot. I just noticed like two days ago the cached button was gone for newer pages
Only new Reddit employs the VPN block. If you visit old.reddit.com, you can use the page without being locked out.
No way… see i uninstalled all my reddit addons and obviously got rid of my accounts. I didnt even think of that. Ive moved on completely even in my head. I never even used new reddit. Ever. Thats hilarious i didnt even think of that.
Google: We love killing the things you love.
There’s a handy extension on both Firefox and Chromium browsers called Web Archives made by dessant / Armin Sebastian. You can right click on any URL and try to find cached copy on multiple services like Archive.org, Google cache and many more.
There is another cool extension from same dev called Search by Image that can search any image across multiple reverse image search engines.
“Web Extensions” is a terrible name for a browser extension and explains nothing, so I’m glad it’s actually called “Web Archives”
It changed the name right after I posted. I swear I definitely did not make a silly typo.
It was very useful, so they turned it off.
Well that cached me off guard.
take my disgusted upvote and fuck off
I think I’m gonna hURL
Cache me outside, how bout dat!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
SEO professionals could use it to debug their sites or even keep tabs on competitors, and it can also be an enormously helpful news gathering tool, giving reporters the ability to see exactly what information a company has added (or removed) from a website, and a way to see details that people or companies might be trying to scrub from the web.
Or, if a site is blocked in your region, Google’s cache can work as a great alternative to a VPN.
Here’s how the Cached button used to appear in search results back in 2021 versus what I’m seeing as of today:
The removal of Google’s cache links has been taking place gradually over the past couple of months and isn’t complete just yet.
In his tweet, Danny Sullivan confirmed that in addition to removing the links, the “cache:” search operator will also be going away “in the near future.”
In early 2021, Google developer relations engineer Martin Splitt said the cached view was a “basically unmaintained legacy feature.”
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I didn’t know this still existed! Used to use it all the time.
