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Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by 0x457 »

jjbinx007 wrote: post #5

Is anyone at Google even aware how much this hurts their brand? I received an email from Google today with the subject line "Meet the new Google TV Streamer (4K)" The sender was Google Chromecast. Apparently it's some sort of streaming hardware they are selling for £99. I won't even consider buying one. How long until it's an obsolete brick? And when it's a brick, what are the chances I can wipe it and install my own…

Google TV, the hardware dongle, been around for a while already. Pretty solid Android TV device if you don't own Nvidia Shield. Really nice for travel.

> I won't even consider buying one. How long until it's an obsolete brick? And when it's a brick, what are the chances I can wipe it and install my own software on it? Probably zero.

You can install LineageOS on it today.

If you want to complain about Google TV, the strategy is to bring up the first product to use that name. No one remembers it, and completely unrelated to current Google TV. Probably why Google chosen than name - even they forgot they had a product with that name already.

Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by 8organicbits »

fngjdflmdflg wrote: post #3

I'm surprised it took them this long. I like many others used it to view paid articles for free. I imagine paywalled sites didn't like that and told them to shut it down.

Wasn't that NOARCHIVE?

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/679/how-do-i-...

Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by msg »

jsheard wrote: post #6
jjbinx007 wrote: post #2

I guess that's another one to add to the list: https://killedbygoogle.com/

It bugs me how that site counts things that were just shuffled around, rebranded or obsolete as "killed". Google genuinely kills enough stuff that there's really no need to pad out the list by counting the Google Drive desktop client that still exists and was just renamed, or the standalone Street View app which was just a worse version of the Google Maps app, or Google Toolbar which was obsoleted by browsers integra…

If it requires a migration for its existing customers, it's fair to call it killed. And if there is no such pathway, it's also killed.

We could argue about whether it was murder or euthanasia, but dead is dead.

Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by xnx »

Any solid evidence on why, or why now? I have to assume the additional interest in crawling/scraping data for AI precipitated this. Why deal with all the messiness of crawling the web at large when you can use a Google search and cache: results as your RAG?

Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by sionisrecur »

jjbinx007 wrote: post #5

Is anyone at Google even aware how much this hurts their brand? I received an email from Google today with the subject line "Meet the new Google TV Streamer (4K)" The sender was Google Chromecast. Apparently it's some sort of streaming hardware they are selling for £99. I won't even consider buying one. How long until it's an obsolete brick? And when it's a brick, what are the chances I can wipe it and install my own…

The amount of people using the feature was probably a rounding error for them. This is probably true for all the services they kill.

Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by sandyarmstrong »

This was really useful when looking for product support, as companies regularly pull down or move around pages on their website. Seeing the version of a page at the time google associated it as a result was something I did all the time.

Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by ThinkBeat »

I would presume Google still has all this data. They just will not let anyone else use it.

Could this be an advantage that Google can use to train their models on but others won't have access?

Google wants it to be more difficult to notice rewrites? Journalists to often have found valuable information with it?

Re: Google Cache is fully dead

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Post by sionisrecur »

seanw444 wrote: post #10
fngjdflmdflg wrote: post #3

I'm surprised it took them this long. I like many others used it to view paid articles for free. I imagine paywalled sites didn't like that and told them to shut it down.

I didn't even realize this existed. Now it's too late to enjoy it.

You can still set your user-agent to Googlebot.
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