Google Cache
October 4, 2011 12:30 PM Subscribe
Google Cache links have disappeared.
If I Google a site and it's down, or busy, or a posting has been removed, I can often get what I want by accessing the Google Cache. About 10 days ago, the cache links disappeared. I usually use FireFox, but they're also gone in IE.
How can I get the Cache links to show?
If I Google a site and it's down, or busy, or a posting has been removed, I can often get what I want by accessing the Google Cache. About 10 days ago, the cache links disappeared. I usually use FireFox, but they're also gone in IE.
How can I get the Cache links to show?
Best answer: There's a hidden arrow on the right hand side of each search result, mousing over brings up a page preview pane which includes the cache link.
posted by Lorin at 12:38 PM on October 4, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by Lorin at 12:38 PM on October 4, 2011 [4 favorites]
You can also search for:
cache:http://www.blahblahblah
posted by bcwinters at 12:39 PM on October 4, 2011
cache:http://www.blahblahblah
posted by bcwinters at 12:39 PM on October 4, 2011
They're in the preview now (no, this isn't very intuitive). To bring up the preview, I have to wave the mouse off the right-hand side of a search result - there's a large double-arrow thing there that shows up when you hover the mouse on the result, and mousing over it is the trigger for the preview - and then I see the "Cached" link at the top right of the preview section.
I found this information here, rather than, say, in Google's own help pages. Usability fail...
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 12:42 PM on October 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
I found this information here, rather than, say, in Google's own help pages. Usability fail...
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 12:42 PM on October 4, 2011 [2 favorites]
Not to threadjack, but is there a setting to disable preview? I spent some time a few days ago looking for one, but only came across grease monkey scripts and ad block settings. I dislike having random pages jump out at me when I'm reviewing search results.
posted by willnot at 2:20 PM on October 4, 2011
posted by willnot at 2:20 PM on October 4, 2011
willnot: it doesn't look like it, even though people have been asking for one for a year. (I've looked for one too; I hate having something leap out at me when I click on what looks like a safely blank bit of the page.) If real functionality is being pulled out into the preview section, though, disabling it becomes less practical anyway.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 3:52 PM on October 4, 2011
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 3:52 PM on October 4, 2011
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posted by LionIndex at 12:37 PM on October 4, 2011