Hey Google, I want my cache links back
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Hey Google, I want my cache links back
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Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#2Another thing I find more annoying with the recent changes is that previously visited links are not marked as such any longer. When searching for the solution to a problem, it is quite nice to easily know which pages have already been visited using a different search query.
Re: Hey Google, I want my cache links back
#3Mine is still here.
(Just don't get me wrong, what I really miss is the "Related" link)
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#4This does not bode well for the employees at google. You get extra features like this (instant preview) when you have too much manpower - you look for things for your employees to do.
But if your customers don't want it, and you can't find anything else for them to do then you start reducing the workforce.
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#5I don't agree this is necessarily bad. Arguably, "view cache" is a feature for power-users that know what they're doing.
Moving the cache link into that pop-up did simplify the user interface in the most common case, in which the user just wants to view the real link. It no longer has to be rendered for every result.
IMO it just takes some getting used to that the cache link has been moved. Or are you viewing pages from cache that regularly that the extra clicks/mouse moves are a problem?
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#6I don't agree this is necessarily bad. Arguably, "view cache" is a feature for power-users that know what they're doing. Moving the cache link into that pop-up did simplify the user interface in the most common case, in which the user just wants to view the real link. It no longer has to be rendered for every result. IMO it just takes some getting used to that the cache link has been moved. Or are you viewing pages f…
Depends on the users, for example my non-techie partner always clicks on the cache link just because it highlights the words that she searched for on the page.
For some people it may be an important move
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#7Search is just one of those things where power users will always rule, because in an information economy whoever has best access to information becomes dominant, and the copycats follow in order to keep up. So a search engine has to cater to power users.
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#8Mine is still here. (Just don't get me wrong, what I really miss is the "Related" link)
Phased roll-out? AB test in progress?
This seems to have started a couple of days ago.
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#9The 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.
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#10I don't agree this is necessarily bad. Arguably, "view cache" is a feature for power-users that know what they're doing. Moving the cache link into that pop-up did simplify the user interface in the most common case, in which the user just wants to view the real link. It no longer has to be rendered for every result. IMO it just takes some getting used to that the cache link has been moved. Or are you viewing pages f…
Depends on the users, for example my non-techie partner always clicks on the cache link just because it highlights the words that she searched for on the page. For some people it may be an important move
Hmm yes I can see it used for that. However, that will only work for simple passive pages. "view cache" is inherently incompatible with pages that render from javascript (or that make extra requests to get the content). These get broken, and as a growing amount of sites is affected this might be another one of the reasons for obscuring the option.