Google Says Cache View Is An Unmaintained Legacy Feature

Apr 15, 2021 - 7:31 am 3 by
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Google's Martin Splitt said something we all know to be true for a while now, he said on Twitter that the "cached view is a basically unmaintained legacy feature." I asked Martin if he is cool with me sharing this and he said "yea sure, I think we've said that before too." This does not mean Google is going to get rid of the cache, as John Mueller of Google clarified below.

The last time Google updates the cache results page was back in June 2015 I believe. Google did recently update how to access the cache page, when it added the about this result overlay feature:

Google Cache Link

But the cache page itself looks exactly the same, I think, from several years ago:

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I wonder if this is a sign that Google may do away with the cache view at some point in the near future?

John said it is not going away:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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