Internet Archive is essential now. I used to use Google Cached for when IA failed. All researchers are now losing that resiliency.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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It has barely existed for years anyway. Anyone can remove the Google caching from their website and most major websites and many small ones do.
Now I just have an archive.org extension to do the se thing basically.
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I find this very useful to read paywalled articles that Google has managed to index!
OK, I see why they might want to get rid of it.
We that's some shit. I often use that to get info off of pages that I won't be clicking on normally.
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.
I tried using it three days ago and had to resort to the Wayback Machine instead. Thanks Google!
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I haven't seen that available for literally years. I thought they killed it long ago.
Google sucks.
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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.