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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

3 years ago by L4sBot to c/technology

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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.::Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

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wosat 59 points 3 years ago

To be clear, Google will still be storing copies of the pages they crawl. They just won't be making those copies available to end users.

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BananaTrifleViolin 8 points 3 years ago

Absolutely. This is just locking off users access and is an example of enshittification. 0 benefit to users but benefits to Google (more click through to sponsored links, and blocking AI content crawlers probably)

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