Why did Google get rid of their cached pages anyway? I was trying to use that feature the other day and it turned out they stopped a while ago. And now they're using this, maybe?
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some say due to bypassing firewallls, dunno. deleting the past seems more plausible. then again: why would they get rid of cache to jump in wayback machine? do the lawsuit have something to do with it? if so, how would that benefit both? and us? why would I trust google? so many questions, gonna pop a joint, brb
It was revealed a while back that the decline in search quality increased google revenue because people clicked on more pages and viewed more ads. This probably had the same effect. Page you want is down and there's no cache so check search results for something similar across many pages.
Note this change is not convenient and you would never find the archive.org link if you didn't already know it was there since you have to click the "more about this page" button.