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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 748 days ago
"I also mourn the Google cache."

Google cache still works. Too early to mourn.

For example,

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...

I do all searches from command line. This allows me to control the SERP, e.g., make own basic HTML metasearch SERP with no JS or CSS. I can put cache links in if I want. I can mix results from different search engines. I can do temporally separated continuation searches to avoid rate limits. And so on.

I can also rewrite URLs with the local forward proxy to use any cache I want. I can also rewrite response bodies.

If Google disables public access to their cache, there are many other options. I have never relied on it.

1 comments

Yeah it works, but a button leading to it has been removed. It operates more like a hidden feature now.