Serendipity35

It seems too soon to do another Google Graveyard post but the company has killed (they say "retired') something else. This time it's not a product but a feature. The cached webpages are dead.

Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web and so they will no longer be keeping a backup of the entire Internet. The cache has been an alternative way to load a website that was down or had changed.

Cached pages were not rendered exactly like how you would expect. In 2020, Google switched to mobile-by-default, so when you visited a cached link, you got the mobile site.

An X post from Google said that the feature "was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."