Google Cache Is Fully Disabled
Raj Nandan (Ranky SEO)
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Google has fully and completely killed off its cache operator. Google said it would do this after removing the cache link from the search result snippets back in January of this year but has not done until nine-months later.
9 months after Google dropped the cache link and 2 weeks after Google added the Wayback Machine links, the cache operator has fully stopped working.
Maybe Google waited to completely disable the cache operator until after it added links to the Wayback Machine as an alternative, which it did about two weeks ago.
What it looks like. Here is a screenshot of me trying the cache:https://searchengineland.com/ command in Google.
Here is a screenshot of me trying the cache:seroundtable.com command in Google.
Google has now completely disabled access to the Google Cache. Earlier this year, they removed the cache link from search result snippets, and more recently, they added links to the Wayback Machine. Now, the direct link to view the Google Cache has been fully deactivated.
If you attempt to access the Google Cache directly—something I've done daily since the removal of the cache links—you’ll now find that Google shows nothing.
Below are the links and screenshots I've been trying over the past few days:
Here’s a screenshot of my attempt to use the cache with the command cache:https://www.facebook.com/ in Google.
Here’s a screenshot of my attempt to use the cache with the command cache:https://www.google.com/ in Google.
Here’s a screenshot of my attempt to use the cache with the command cache:https://en.wikipedia.org/ in Google.