Google has now completely disabled the Google Cache from fully working. Earlier this yr, Google removed the cache link from the search outcome snippets. Then a few weeks in the past, added links to the Wayback Machine. Now, the direct hyperlink to see the Google Cache has been absolutely disabled.
For those who attempt to go on to the Google Cache – one thing I’ve tried actually day by day since Google eliminated the hyperlinks from the search outcomes – Google will now present nothing:
Right here is the hyperlink I have been making an attempt every day at this link:
This stopped working up to now 12 hours or so.
There are lots of people chattering about it on social:
Google has eliminated the flexibility to test cache manually, simply occurred right now. It did not work on each web site, however you can see the cache on new pages quickly.https://t.co/AMffKaKrbM
Now it simply redirects to a search outcome with cache: in entrance of the area. @rustybrick
— SEOwner (@tehseowner) September 24, 2024
cache:https://t.co/IR03XZd2iZ is cache operator no extra? I’ve checked many web site, nobody web site is exhibiting cache web page. So I feel that is no extra from now. What you suppose guys?@JohnMu @rustybrick
— Rajesh Prajapati (@prajapatiseo) September 24, 2024
In India, Google have fully stopped giving cache copy of listed pages.
Tried on greater than 10 to twenty web sites.I feel they’ve accomplished this rollout in India.@JohnMu @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/fWmQTUfD6p
— Nilesh Yadav (@Nilesh__Yadav) September 24, 2024
hello @rustybrick @JohnMu
Google Cache will not be working. Is that this a Google bug, or is just my web site dealing with this situation? pic.twitter.com/rHw4EZMxcO
— Akshay Kumar Sharma (@alexsharma111) September 24, 2024
As a reminder, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, stated on X:
Sure, it has been eliminated. I do know, it is unhappy. I am unhappy too. It is one among our oldest options. But it surely was meant for serving to individuals entry pages when method again, you typically could not depend upon a web page loading. Lately, issues have significantly improved. So, it was determined to retire it.
Personally, I hope that perhaps we’ll add hyperlinks to @internetarchive from the place we had the cache hyperlink earlier than, inside About This Consequence. It is such a tremendous useful resource. For the knowledge literacy objective of About The Consequence, I feel it will even be a pleasant match — permitting individuals to simply see how a web page modified over time. No guarantees. Now we have to speak to them, see the way it all may go — includes individuals nicely past me. However I feel it will be good throughout.As a reminder, anybody with a Search Console account can use URL Inspector to see what our crawler noticed their very own web page.
You are going to see cache: go away within the close to future, too. However wait, I hear you ask, what about noarchive? We’ll nonetheless respect that; no have to mess with it. Plus, others past us use it.
Listed here are a few of these posts:
Replace! We have now added hyperlinks to earlier variations of webpages from the Web Archive. Be taught extra within the put up under: https://t.co/qbYUi8iSoI
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) September 11, 2024
So he informed use the cache: operator would go away within the “close to future.” That took 9 months or so to occur and now it’s gone.
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