Not to mention the annoying +1 button after each link. I don't want to +1 unless I visited it, and I don't mind taking the extra step of sharing if I found a webpage interesting!
Hey Google, I want my cache links back
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Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#62Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#63The iPad "Tablet" Google results experience has removed them completely, no instant preview, no "hidden" swipe-to-expose (that I could find). You have to go to the "classic" version, via a link on the bottom of the page, to get them back.
The classic version? It's the one we used to have: no instant preview, Cache link present on almost every listing.
So, at least on some platforms, the info-dense but useful version is sill around...
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#64Another thing that has been annoying me lately is that it seems like like I have to add a + in front of every word or Google might decide without any indication that it will completely ignore it.
Oh, it's happened to me too. And sometimes it replaces one term with another word with similar spelling but not related at all, the typed term is still in the textbox, but the terms bolded in the summary are different. It started a little after the anti-content-farms changes where applied, so I thought it was some temporary glitch. I haven't seen it recently, but maybe it's because I'm not making complex queries since.
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#65Just google for cache:http://www.example.com/ and it will take you directly to the cached site. This is particularly nice in combination with Chrome's omnibar where you just have to prepend "cache:" before the current URL, hit return, and it will automatically show the cached version of the page you are viewing.
Note: You must click the search button. Clicking any of the instant results will do nothing with cache.
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#66Another thing that has been annoying me lately is that it seems like like I have to add a + in front of every word or Google might decide without any indication that it will completely ignore it.
This is really a problem. I can live with most of the other crap, but this is highly annoying.
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#67The iPad "Tablet" Google results experience has removed them completely, no instant preview, no "hidden" swipe-to-expose (that I could find). You have to go to the "classic" version, via a link on the bottom of the page, to get them back. The classic version? It's the one we used to have: no instant preview, Cache link present on almost every listing. So, at least on some platforms, the info-dense but useful version…
Can you please post the link to your classic version?
I'd like to see what happens when I hit that link from a different platform.
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#68I didn't realize they'd hidden cached pages this way...but here's a data point on human behavior that may be non-optimal for Google:
So, yesterday, I searched for something on Google, found what I wanted, went to click Cache and it wasn't there.
I didn't think to go mousing over the page...I instead did what any red-blooded search engine user in a hurry would do: I copied the URL, pasted it into Bing, and viewed cache from there. 0_o
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#69The OP raises a wider point: For the longest time google made good on their promise to keep their search page simple and easy to use. Now, bit by bit the search page is getting more filled up with cruft that you don't need and stuff that you do need gets removed. I am getting a hunch (just a vague feeling) that we might be approaching a time where a new, simpler search experience would pick up a lot of users - maybe…
What’s that cruft you are talking about? Ignoring for a moment the cache link (I’m not sure how many people use it, maybe it’s worth testing whether Google could do with it being a bit more hidden) Google’s results page is very sparse and only provides truly useful tools.
I use Google’s ability to search for links from a specific time frame all the time, for example. I couldn’t do without it, it’s also accessible and minimalist. I also quite often switch between the different kinds of links I can search for.
I don’t see much on the results page one could reasonably remove. Exposing some of the advanced search options in the UI was the right step for Google to take. They didn’t pick everything, only the most important stuff. It’s all still very minimal.
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#70Another thing that has been annoying me lately is that it seems like like I have to add a + in front of every word or Google might decide without any indication that it will completely ignore it.
String literals seem to be ignored now too. ("quoted terms")
No, they are not. Only if Google can’t find anything – which makes a lot of sense.