Google says the feature had outlived its original purpose. The company’s official search liaison thinks Google should instead incorporate the Internet Archive’s ‘Wayback machine.’
Google is sending another feature to the company graveyard: cached links, a helpful function that let you view revisions made to a web page.
Google’s official search liaison, Danny Sullivan, confirmed the news on Thursday after journalists noticed that Google search results had dropped the cached web view function. “Yes, it’s been removed. I know, it’s sad. I’m sad too. It’s one of our oldest features,” Sullivan tweeted.
Whenever Google crawled a web page, the company would take and store a snapshot, giving users an archived view.
