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Google should just make their cache accessible. Want to Paywall and be indexed, ie eat and have the cookie too? Don't be upset when your readers access it throu

• jfoster 4y ago
  They used to.
• sen 4y ago
  That was one of my favorite features of Google as it let you see pages while the host server was down or if the content had been removed. Yet another actually-useful-for-users feature that got removed because profits.
  • kccqzy 4y ago
    I thought that was because many news sites pressured Google not to support it. The cache feature still works for certain sites like personal blogs.
    • klabb3 4y ago
      I don't get this mentality. First you go through hoops to serve the Google crawler with a full version of the article. Then you get pissed when Google presents it to the user. I think the publishers should go ahead and create their own paywall content search engine but I would like the option to have my search results actually be available when I click them.
  • ricardo81 4y ago
    It's not removed, just less visible. Webmasters also have the option of hinting that they don't want a page cached, which some use.