Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
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Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.::Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I haven’t used Google directly other than at work for a while, but this is actually a welcome thing for those charged with filtering the web. Those cache links are so often used as a way around web content filters and with how closely the entire Google ecosystem is integrated it’s a pain to slice them apart from the live web.

    • fruitycoderEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, they used to be my go-to for getting around the censors myself