One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required.

“It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Google’s Danny Sullivan wrote. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”

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      1 year ago

      No fucking way I’m paying a subscription to search something on the Internet. 5$ for 300 searches, lol.

      • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        I have been looking at kagi but their pricing is definitely made to force people to buy the professional $10 package.

        100 or even 300 searches/day would be unusable for me, you quickly spend 10 searches refining a query for something special, and when developing you do like 5-10 searches/hour.

        A fair pricing model would be

        • $2/month for 1000 searches/day
        • $5/month for 5000 searches/day
        • $10/month for unlimited everything
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        1 year ago

        Oh shit, it’s 5 dollars? That’s like… A cup of coffee. You are right, way too much, so much money.

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      1 year ago

      Ad based search engines make almost $300 a year off their users

      What disingenuous phrasing.

      I’d be up for using a product like this, but their popcorn pricing and snark is really off-putting, so I’ll never be using this service.