• BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Google never did make backups of the Internet, why are we pretending like they ever did? Cached webpages were a basic workaround for third-party website downtime; a guarantee that you could reliably see the information you searched for, even if the linked site was down. It was nothing more than a snapshot of the webpage their crawlers saw, where older copies are permanently deleted with every new crawl of the page.

    It was never an archival effort, it was a rotating cache. If you were under the impression for all these years that Google was preserving Internet history, I don’t know why, because Google never claimed to be doing that. Maybe it’s time to reevaluate any other altruistic things you’re assuming that mega corporations are up to…

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    9 months ago

    Keeping records of things bad people say and do would be considered not being evil, so it makes sense.

  • astanix@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I noticed this yesterday when I tried to load a cached version of a site. How disappointing.

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    9 months ago

    I wonder if this is related to why their searches have been going to hell. Like They changed how the engine indexes or something.

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    9 months ago

    You can’t cache stuff, politicians and the media needs ways to be able to delete content whenever they please.