Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired

Google claims it’s less necessary now that internet reliability has improved.

Google is a cloud computing company. One with a robust PR department that likes to make everything a societal positive. One that needs to find profit, fast.

How do you increase cloud capacity without increasing hardware costs? You delete a bunch of stuff taking up space. Like Search cache. Or Universal Analytics data (148 days until deletion).

What will fill this space?

I’m sure some will be whatever paying customers put there. It mostly, AI.

@curiouskyle I haven't actually used Google search in forever and a day wow, I had to actually remember what you were talking about. I do remember, and that's not very nice for the web, and all the sites that are archived in Google's caches. It's good for Google, of course.

@ladyhope I desperately needed this function the other day when trying to recover a webpage for a client and couldn’t find it. The site was too new to be in any of the other archives either. This is one of the things I like about Micro.blog, it’ll send all your new posts to the Internet Archive by default.

(I was able to recover the page thanks to a weird quirk of the site platform they use.)

@curiouskyle Oh that's good that you were able to recover the page! Google is always breaking the web! We need to figure out how to do all this stuff without SEO!