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Re: Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

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"Internetado" <internetado@bbs.alt119.net> 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.
<https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-retires-cached-site-links-pushing-users-towards-internet-archive/507128/>

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