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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)

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One of Google Search's oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the "Cached" button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they're no longer required.

"It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Google's Danny Sullivan wrote. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Google invents, invests, or previously invested into some ground breaking technology
They buy out competition and throw tons of effort into making superior product
Eventually Google becomes defacto standard
Like a few years pass
Google hands off project to fresh interns to reduce the crap out of the cloud usage to decrease cost
Any viable alternatives are immediately bought out by Google
Anything left over is either struggling FOSS or another crappy corporate attempt (cough cough Microsoft)
Repeat

My favorite case in point being Google Maps.

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