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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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[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they've broken / ignored every modifier besides site: in the last few years, god knows how long that'll work

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Quotes are fucking awful now. You have to change the search terms to verbatim now which takes way fucking longer. Google has enshittified almost everything. I'm just waiting for them to ruin Maps.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Remember when Google Now was intelligently selected data and not an endless scroll of paywalled news articles?