Google has removed one of the oldest functions from its Google search. Namely the so-called cache function, i.e. the temporary storage of websites. Google Search was able to display these cached pages when the current page was not available. In addition, content that has already been deleted can often be restored, which often contains explosive information.
This cache for web pages is no longer present in Google Search. A Google manager explained on X/Twitter:
Yes, it was removed. I know it’s sad. I’m sad too. It’s one of our oldest features. But it was intended to make it easier for people to access the site at a time when the site couldn’t be relied upon to load. Nowadays things have improved a lot. That’s why we decided to discontinue the feature.
Wayback Machine as an alternative
However, this does not mean that the ability to access older versions of websites has been lost. Because that’s what the specialized archive.org alias Internet Archive is for anyway. You have always been able to access even distant versions of a website using the Wayback Machine there. This option remains and the Google manager hopes that Google will perhaps one day add links to the Internet Archive in Google Search. This would allow users to see how a page has changed over time directly from Google search.
Yet another possibility
However, you can currently still access the Google search cache directly. With the following link: “https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WANTED WEBSITE”. So for example “https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Blaze Trends.de“. According to Google, this option will soon disappear.
