Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead

Google has now tohighy disabled the Google Cache from finishly laboring. Earlier this year, Google deleted the cache connect from the search result snippets. Then a couple of weeks ago, compriseed connects to the Wayback Machine. Now, the straightforward connect to see the Google Cache has been filledy disabled.

If you try to go straightforwardly to the Google Cache – someleang I have tried literpartner every day since Google deleted the connects from the search results – Google will now show noleang:

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

This stopped laboring 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 manupartner, fair happened today. It didn’t labor on every site, but you could see the cache on recent 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 leank this is no more from now. What you leank guys?@JohnMu @rustybrick

— Rajesh Prajapati (@prajapatiseo) September 24, 2024

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

I leank 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 laboring. 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 understand, it’s downcast. I’m downcast too. It’s one of our betterest features. But it was unbenevolentt for helping people access pages when way back, you normally couldn’t depfinish on a page loading. These days, leangs have fantasticly betterd. So, it was determined to withdraw it.
Personpartner, I hope that maybe we’ll comprise connects to @internetarchive from where we had the cache connect before, wilean About This Result. It’s such an amazing resource. For the recommendation literacy goal of About The Result, I leank it would also be a pleasant fit — apshowing people to easily see how a page alterd over time. No promises. We have to talk to them, see how it all might go — comprises people well beyond me. But I leank it would be pleasant all around.

As a reminder, anyone with a Search Console account can participate 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 defer, I hear you ask, what about noarchive? We’ll still esteem that; no need to mess with it. Plus, others beyond us participate it.

Here are some of those posts:

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

— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) September 11, 2024

So he tbetter participate 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 BconciseageHatWorld.

Update: After this story was unveiled, Google validateed the cache operator no extfinisheder labors. Google posted, “The cache: search operator no extfinisheder labors in Google Search.”

Google has now officipartner validateed the cache operator is no extfinisheder laboring – story refreshd at https://t.co/wHb5HuQnJ6 pic.twitter.com/xLWggZy9Vg

— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) September 24, 2024

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

This story was originpartner unveiled at 6am ET but refreshd at 7:52am ET.