[HN Gopher] Google Search officially retires cache link
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Google Search officially retires cache link
Author : maayank
Score : 20 points
Date : 2024-02-02 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (searchengineland.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (searchengineland.com)
| ijhuygft776 wrote:
| Just another step toward total un-usefulness ....
| nly wrote:
| Completely agree. It's one of the most useful features unique
| to Google.
| ijhuygft776 wrote:
| You sound a bit sarcastic (hard to tell online), but they
| will eventually boil the frog
| dabbz wrote:
| Bing has cached pages though?
| netule wrote:
| I've given up on Google's ability to keep its products useful.
| For search, I switched to Kagi a few weeks back and haven't had
| to use Google for anything since.
| MountainMan1312 wrote:
| I'm interested to know why you picked something that costs
| money instead of a free option like DuckDuckGo?
| calamari4065 wrote:
| DDG is nearly as bad as google.
|
| Besides, Kagi actually shows you results for the -exact-
| query you enter. It does not replace your query with
| whatever it thinks you want. Kagi will respect quotes and
| Boolean operators and other advanced features that google,
| DDG, et al simply ignore.
|
| I find it nearly impossible to find anything on DDG because
| it's so aggressive about just straight up ignoring my query
| to show me something else. Kagi will quite simply give you
| anything in the index matching your query or nothing at
| all. You know, like how a search query is supposed to work.
| srgpqt wrote:
| I have found google to be aggravating enough these days that I've
| experimentally switched my default search engine to Yahoo. It
| feels a lot like the old (good) google, though only having 5
| results per page is a bit disappointing. So far so good, will
| probably stick to it for a while.
| obituary_latte wrote:
| Agreed. Interesting that Yahoo was your choice. I may try it as
| well (have experimented with DDG and Bing a bit, but haven't
| used Yahoo since it was the only option back in the day).
| vitorgrs wrote:
| Why Yahoo, might I ask? It's just Bing engine with another
| name...
| srgpqt wrote:
| Yahoo just feels less cluttered than the others, and that
| counts a lot in my book.
| Hammershaft wrote:
| I'm loving KAGI search, wasn't a fan of DDG.
| calamari4065 wrote:
| I'm always mildly surprised to remember that Yahoo still
| exists. I'd honestly forgotten that they even had a search
| engine in the first place.
| theodric wrote:
| I've gone completely off piste and started using Yandex. It's
| excellent! More Russian results, of course, but I can generally
| find what I'm after.
| obituary_latte wrote:
| Off topic (sorry), but has the quality of searches been on a
| steady decline over the last year or two? If I'm not just
| imagining things, wonder if it is because they changed the algo
| or if there is too much noise for the algo to work well anymore.
| Frustrating nonetheless...
| Workaccount2 wrote:
| Yes, it's been discussed a lot in that time period how bad the
| decline has been.
|
| I also use assistant a lot and it too has fallen off a cliff.
| Assistant in 2016 was better than it is today. Crazy.
| heyoni wrote:
| Google was at least super good at caching so if you knew the
| url you wanted a snapshot of it was almost definitely
| snapshotted accurately.
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