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.”

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    5710 months ago

    The enshittification will continue until quarterly reports improve.

    Just kidding, it will continue regardless.

    • Gormadt
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      410 months ago

      If anything it will keep accelerating the worse quarterly results are as they try to solve their way out of problems they made while still keeping the problems