Citing the current reliability of the internet, Google removes the cached page view functionality.
A historic feature of the search engine, cached visualization has been gradually disappearing from the results for several weeks and will eventually be completely removed.
The benefit of cached pages
If you work in one of the many areas of the web, then perhaps you have already had to view a cached page from the Google search engine. For those who don’t know what we’re talking about, Google previously offered a feature allowing you to see a web page as the search engine sees it, often the last time it crawled it.
In addition to being useful when a website is not operational at the time you want to visit it, this cached version allowed all people working in SEO (among others) to better adapt some of their pages, to see the modifications made by the competition or more simply go, why not, recover data recently deleted by mistake.
It is this last functionality which was also used in journalism, since it made it possible to verify as much as possible the modifications made to pages or the deleted data; the name of a game not yet announced on a publisher’s page, for example.
It’s unfortunately over, according to Google
It was on X.com, formerly Twitter, that Google formalized the end of viewing cached versions of web pages. This feature, which is particularly old on the search engine, is being gradually deactivated from search results and will be completely removed within several weeks or months.
In the tweet in question, the @SearchLiaison account indicates that the web has greatly improved since the implementation of the functionality and that it is therefore no longer really of interest. Clearly, understand that it is increasingly rare for sites to be inaccessible to the point of having to view their cached version.
On the other hand, other very powerful tools offer an equivalent service, such as Internet Archive
and his Wayback Machine
. Although less efficient on the pure display of pages, this tool allows you to go back in time via a timeline and thus discover the evolution of a very large number of web pages. For example, you can discover the home page of Clubic in August 2000; almost 24 years ago. We talked, among other things, about the GeForce 2 GTS Ultra, a graphics card that can run Quake III Arena without a frown.
You are being tracked. All. Yes, despite its fine speeches about security, Google is tracking you. Tirelessly. It’s an open secret that the majority of Google’s revenue is based on advertising. So to make it more relevant, it must be attractive and meet the specific needs of the Internet user. How to achieve this? Quite simply by multiplying the techniques to track the latter.
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Source : The Verge
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