What if you point your URL to the Google Cache?

You could save money on bandwidth

[ogletree]

I was just thinking. What if you pointed your website to redirect to the Google Cache? :)

[plasma]

If you have bandwidth problems, switch your ISP :)
(Quality-) Bandwidth costs nothing these days.

[too much information]

but what happens when google crawls through and finds their own cache? Would you get dumped?

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't crawl their own machines. I do like the way you think though. ;)

[dirkz]

:)

Doesn't save much because the big stuff (movies, pics, software) is href'ed to on the original site.

[Gert_Jan]

If you have bandwidth problems, switch your ISP :)
(Quality-) Bandwidth costs nothing these days.

Tell em that in Holland

[ogletree]

I'm not having problems. I was looking at a cache the other day and wondered if anybody ever did that. Also did you notice that the google cache IP (not name) is 288 in Alexa. I think there must be several IP's because it was 1027 yesterday. Just thought it would be a fun conversation. Actually you could point to it for a short time with your DNS if your server went down for a short period.

[dougmcc1]

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't crawl their own machines

Just think of all those extra links you'd be getting to your site