Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx07.ams4.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ed Corman Newsgroups: alt.comp.google Subject: Re: Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead Message-ID: <5fbaf41d886a.348b1c16@localhost> References: <65C297BB.6120.alt10124@bbs.alt119.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <65C297BB.6120.alt10124@bbs.alt119.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 21 X-Complaints-To: https://www.astraweb.com/aup NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:34:14 UTC Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 03:34:12 -0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1619 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.google:5769 "Internetado" wrote: > Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google > Search's "cached" links have long been an alternative way to load a > website that was down or had changed, but now the company is killing > them off. No problem. Use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to access "cached" versions of web pages. IIRC Google only kept one backup version of a web page, the version when Google's spider last crawled the web page. The Wayback Machine keeps more than one backup version. You can see how a web page has changed over time. For example, you can see how a web page looked in 2022 or in 2018. > https://arstechnica.com/?p=2000802 Other reports say this will push users towards the Internet Archive.