My guess is that a cached page is just a byproduct when the page is indexed by the crawler. The need a local copy to parse text, links etc. and see the difference to the previous page.
Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature
NoRodent@lemmy.world 9 months ago
By they way, I just found out that they removed the button, but typing “cache:” into Google still redirects you to the cached version (if it exists). But who knows for how long.
AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 9 months ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I hope they only kill the announced feature but keep the
cachepart.
Just today I had to use it because some random rss aggregator website had the search result I wanted but redirected me somewhere completely different…
_number8_@lemmy.world 9 months ago
they’ve broken / ignored every modifier besides site: in the last few years, god knows how long that’ll work
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Quotes are fucking awful now. You have to change the search terms to verbatim now which takes way fucking longer. Google has enshittified almost everything. I’m just waiting for them to ruin Maps.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Remember when Google Now was intelligently selected data and not an endless scroll of paywalled news articles?