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Google recently updated its Google Cache documentation on its website cache, and in doing so indirectly created a reminder that the cache is still available for virtually any web page Google has indexed.<\/p>\n
What was reported about Google’s cache may have inadvertently left the impression that it was permanently and irretrievably gone. But this is still not the case.<\/p>\n
Here is SearchLiaison’s announcement on Twitter<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Hey, catching up. Yes, it’s been removed. I know, it’s sad. I’m sad too. It’s one of our oldest features. But it was meant to help people access pages when back , you couldn’t depend on a page loading very often. Things have improved a lot these days. So it was decided to remove it.<\/p>\n Personally, I’m hoping that maybe we’ll add links to @internetarchive from where we had the cache link before, in About this result. It is such an amazing resource. For About The Result’s information literacy goal, I think that would also be a good solution: to allow people to easily see how a page has changed over time. no promises We have to talk to them, see how everything can go – it involves people far beyond me. But I think it would be fine all around.<\/p>\n As a reminder, anyone with a Search Console account can use the URL Inspector to see what our crawler has seen looking at their own page: <\/p>\n Cache disappeared from Google Search. But it is still available as a search operator.<\/p>\n The report was correct that the cache was gone from search, but the part about its availability as a search operator was drowned in the noise.<\/p>\n SearchLiaison was at the forefront of the search operator.<\/p>\n His tweet continued:<\/strong><\/p>\n “You will see the cache – disappear in the near future as well.”<\/p>\n Google recently updated its Search Central documentation on the cache search operator: to remove instructions on how to view the cache directly from search results. But that’s all. There is no additional disclaimer that the cache search operator: disappears.<\/p>\n Google’s updated documentation removed references to the cache in the two-section search.<\/p>\n The documentation removes the following sentences:<\/strong><\/p>\n “There are two ways to find the cached version of a page: Google’s new documentation replaced the above paragraph with the following reworded passage:<\/strong><\/p>\n “To find the cached version of a page, search for the cache: followed by the URL of the page, for example: The second change removed the references to the cache in the search for this passage (the part in italics is removed):<\/strong><\/p>\n “Most pages that Google has indexed also have a cached version. When a page doesn’t have a cached version, the methods mentioned above to find the cached version will fail\u2026<\/p>\n The previous text is replaced by the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Most pages that Google has indexed also have a cached version. When a page does not have a cached version, using the cache search operator: to find the cached version fall will fail…”<\/p>\n Google’s SearchLiaison said that the cache: search operator would disappear in the near future. The suggestion that Google might add a link to the Internet Archive is not a useful replacement.<\/p>\n The reason it’s not useful is that Google’s search operator cache: is useful for checking whether competitor pages are indexed, not indexed, or recently indexed, which is useful information.<\/p>\n The cache search operator is still around so enjoy it while it lasts.<\/p>\n Read Google’s documentation on cache: search operator:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe “Cach\u00e9:” search operator still works<\/h2>\n
Find the cache: followed by the URL of the page, for example:
cache:https:\/\/example.com\/your\/page.html
Search for the URL, then click the 3 dots or arrow in the corner of the result to access a link to the cached version of the page.”<\/p>\n
cache memory:<\/p>\n