One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required.

“It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Google’s Danny Sullivan wrote. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”

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    10 months ago

    Sounds like someone’s after storage savings.

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      10 months ago

      All those racks of hard drives are taking up the space they need for racks of Nvidia GPU’s.

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        10 months ago

        They use their own TPUs instead of NVIDIA AFAIK but yeah.