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Can someone ELI5 what google cache was and why it was important? Was it essentially a wayback machine alternative? People are upset about its removal; curious t
by nomilk 2y ago
Can someone ELI5 what google cache was and why it was important? Was it essentially a wayback machine alternative? People are upset about its removal; curious to understand why.
- nikeee 2y agoYou could access a snapshot of the page that was taken when google was indexing it. It is helpful if the site content changed or was removed shortly after google indexed it. This often lead to wrong search result preview texts which you could still find in the cache. The internet archive has a different focus and maybe you won't find the missing information that google has indexed there.
- exmadscientist 2y agoRight, that was the real value of the feature: you got to see what Google saw or thought it saw. Plenty of sites serve different things to Googlebot and the Google cache could often help untangle that mess.