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> Google Search is now making it easier than ever to access the past. I don't know about easier than ever. Easier than since google killed their own version of

• xnx 2y ago
  cache:url still works (for now), but it's true there's no link to access it
  • p0358 2y ago
    True, although only if the link is actually cached, which I find to be the case far more rarely than before. But it does work and it's still helpful...
• RajT88 2y ago
  From what I recall the cached versions only had fairly recent versions. IA were always better for the archived versions.
  • postalrat 2y ago
    It's infuriating when there is text in the Google preview in search results that isn't in the linked document. My guess is that Google doesn't want to share the version of each page they get served to index.
    • dietr1ch 2y ago
      Well, no one can ensure that same text they found will be found again on a link. It can simply change since the last time you saw it. Now, building an index means that after you are done you can drop the data you had and use that space for getting newer data, so you might not even have it. It's probably smart to keep the data to help the crawler be less aggressive at downloading the whole internet though, but this data is globally replicated and ready to serve, might be just in 1.5+ hard disk drives that are not publicly reachable because they are dedicated to run the indexing service, not serve end users. Could Google do it? Yeah, sure, but they are busy doing LLM things.