So Long to the Google Cache, Time to Consider the Wayback Machine Browser Extension/Add-On (If You’re Not Already Using It)

From The Verge:

Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”

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Although the cache links are only now being discontinued, the writing’s been on the wall for a while. In early 2021, Google developer relations engineer Martin Splitt said the cached view was a “basically unmaintained legacy feature.”

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Ed. Note: To find archived versions of webpages with minimal effort, consider using the Wayback Machine/Internet Archive browser extension. It also makes the on-demand archiving of webpages (the pages you view) and other filetypes (PDF, for example) simple, fast via Wayback’s “Save Page Now” service. These are only a few of the features it offers!
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Update: It appears the Bing cache feature is still alive (at least for some pages). Look for the down arrow next to the url on a results page. Click, then select “Cached”.

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