Farewell Google Cache

[engine]

Google has retired the cache, and suggests using the Internet Archive.

Hey, catching up. Yes, it's been removed. I know, it's sad. I'm sad too. It's one of our oldest features. But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.

https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1753156161509916873

[superclown2]

Shame. I felt it was really useful.

[engine]

I'm often surprised how many sites are down, and the cache was useful.

[lucy24]

Somewhere along the line I installed the Wayback Machine extension for Firefox. At first it tended to be over-enthusiastic and went straight for the archived site if it took more than a few seconds to load up, but now it just sits there politely waiting.

[tangor]

Personally, never used g cache so won't miss it. By the same token, I don't allow caching of my site as I want fresh reads at all times (something Incredibll suggested many, many years ago). Seems to have worked in that regard. ON THE OTHER HAND the site described is not humongous <100k pages/images so it is nothing to a crawler most of the time.

Other sites I managed allowed caching as an "industry standard", so it was not completely ignored.

[phranque]

it has been quite some time since i have seen a link to a cached page in a Google SERP

[engine]

True, not in Google serps so much for a while.

Bing still shows cache.