The_Rooster
Feb 4
Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.
Google will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. Google Search's "cached" links have long been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed, but now the company is killing them off. Google "Search Liaison" Danny Sullivan confirmed the feature removal in an X post, saying the feature "was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."
The death of cached sites will mean the Internet Archive has a larger burden of archiving and tracking changes on the world's webpages.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/