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The main reason their cache was useful back then is that many pages were long gone and the links were 404s. Inktomi marketing always tried to play up our freshn
by diego 16y ago
The main reason their cache was useful back then is that many pages were long gone and the links were 404s. Inktomi marketing always tried to play up our freshness compared to Google. In 1999 they had some pages in their cache that were 3-5 months old. We were pushing new indexes once a week, no page was older than a month. Seems quaint now.
- nostrademons 16y agoI find that the cache is useful now because articles get posted to social news sites, the influx of traffic brings down the site, and Google Cache is a handy mirror that usually seems to have the page already.