Cached pages haven't worked on many sites for several years already.
And for specific types of sites, it 100% still is needed and a great tool.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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Was it even still around? I can think of a few times in the past few months where I've tried to find the cached link to a google result and failed. Most recently just two days ago, when a site I wanted to use was down for maintenance.
Internet Archive is essential now. I used to use Google Cached for when IA failed. All researchers are now losing that resiliency.
I haven't seen that available for literally years. I thought they killed it long ago.
Google sucks.
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I tried using it three days ago and had to resort to the Wayback Machine instead. Thanks Google!
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No, there are still use cases for it. I usually use it to retrieve web pages from sites that get incorrectly blocked by the firewall at work.
JFC...at this point I may as well stand up a self hosted search engine.
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