[HN Gopher] Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached w...
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       Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are
       dead
        
       Author : roldie
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-02-02 22:06 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | samstave wrote:
       | What will they do will all the defunct storage they previously
       | used for cache?
       | 
       | What has Google ever done with old HW?
        
         | ijhuygft776 wrote:
         | There's some on Ebay... not sure if it's their official way to
         | get rid of their stuff.
         | 
         | I.E.: https://www.ebay.com/itm/296133215661
        
           | staticfish wrote:
           | I would be surprised if this was actual Google hardware.
           | 
           | Most likely this is one of their pagerank (?) servers that
           | Google sold to business customers way back in the day.
        
       | staticfish wrote:
       | Cached webpages have pretty much been dead since the pandemic, at
       | least from my usage in the last few years.
       | 
       | There used to be a prominent cache link under the search results,
       | then it moved to a weird overflow menu thing, and then finally
       | about a year or more ago, Google exposed no cache version for
       | most websites. This just seems like confirmation.
       | 
       | Still really shitty. I used it constantly. I hate new Google.
        
       | Reubend wrote:
       | I'm quite sad to see the removal of cached pages. The Internet
       | Archive's Wayback Machine is a great alternative, but they don't
       | have the massive reach that the Google crawler does.
       | 
       | At the same time though, this decision makes so much sense from a
       | business perspective. That feature must have occupied huge
       | amounts of extra storage, and I'm guessing that usage is quite
       | low.
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | Ongoing related discussion:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39234246
        
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