Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead

Google has now tohighy disabled the Google Cache from finishly toiling. Earlier this year, Google deleted the cache join from the search result snippets. Then a couple of weeks ago, grasped joins to the Wayback Machine. Now, the straightforward join to see the Google Cache has been brimmingy disabled.

If you try to go straightforwardly to the Google Cache – someslfinisherg I have tried literassociate every day since Google deleted the joins from the search results – Google will now show noslfinisherg:

Here is the join I’ve been trying daily at this join:

This stopped toiling in the past 12 hours or so.

There are a lot of people chattering about it on social:

Google has deleted the ability to check cache manuassociate, fair happened today. It didn’t toil on every site, but you could see the cache on novel pages temporarily.https://t.co/AMffKaKrbM

Now it fair restraightforwards to a search result with cache: in front of the domain. @rustybrick

— SEOwner (@tehseowner) September 24, 2024

cache:https://t.co/IR03XZd2iZ is cache operator no more? I have checked many website, no one site is shotriumphg cache page. So I slfinisherk this is no more from now. What you slfinisherk guys?@JohnMu @rustybrick

— Rajesh Prajapati (@prajapatiseo) September 24, 2024

In India, Google have finishly stopped giving cache imitate of indexed pages.
Tried on more than 10 to 20 websites.

I slfinisherk they have finishd this rollout in India.@JohnMu @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/fWmQTUfD6p

— Nilesh Yadav (@Nilesh__Yadav) September 24, 2024

hi @rustybrick @JohnMu

Google Cache is not toiling. Is this a Google bug, or is only my website facing this publish? pic.twitter.com/rHw4EZMxcO

— Akshay Kumar Sharma (@alexsharma111) September 24, 2024

As a reminder, Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, shelp on X:

Yes, it’s been deleted. I comprehend, it’s downcast. I’m downcast too. It’s one of our greaterest features. But it was uncomferventt for helping people access pages when way back, you frequently couldn’t depfinish on a page loading. These days, slfinishergs have wonderfully betterd. So, it was choosed to quit it.
Personassociate, I hope that maybe we’ll grasp joins to @internetarchive from where we had the cache join before, wislfinisher About This Result. It’s such an amazing resource. For the increateation literacy goal of About The Result, I slfinisherk it would also be a pleasant fit — apverifying people to easily see how a page alterd over time. No promises. We have to talk to them, see how it all might go — grasps people well beyond me. But I slfinisherk it would be pleasant all around.

As a reminder, anyone with a Search Console account can use URL Inspector to see what our crawler saw seeing at their own page.

You’re going to see cache: go away in the proximate future, too. But postpone, I hear you ask, what about noarchive? We’ll still esteem that; no necessitate to mess with it. Plus, others beyond us use it.

Here are some of those posts:

Update! We’ve now grasped joins to previous versions of webpages from the Internet Archive. Lachieve more in the post below: https://t.co/qbYUi8iSoI

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) September 11, 2024

So he tgreater use the cache: operator would go away in the “proximate future.” That took 9 months or so to happen and now it is gone.

What are your alternatives? So, yea, the Wayback Machine or the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console or Google’s wealthy result testing tool.

Forum converseion at BdeficiencyHatWorld.

Update: After this story was begined, Google verifyed the cache operator no lengthyer toils. Google posted, “The cache: search operator no lengthyer toils in Google Search.”

Google has now officiassociate verifyed the cache operator is no lengthyer toiling – story modernized at https://t.co/wHb5HuQnJ6 pic.twitter.com/xLWggZy9Vg

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) September 24, 2024

Google also deleted it from the docs, so the greater version of search operators had this:

This story was originassociate begined at 6am ET but modernized at 7:52am ET.