Seems Like Google Cache Is Dead

This issue started from yesterday but now looks like Google has since fully stopped the Google Cache from operating. Google eliminated the cache link from the search result snippets earlier this year. Then, a few weeks prior, Wayback Machine links were added. The direct link to view the Google Cache is no longer active.

Since Google removed the links from the search results, I have tried to access the Google Cache directly literally every day. However, Google will now display nothing.

As a reminder, Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said on X:

Yes, it's been removed. I know, it's sad. I'm sad too. It's one of our oldest features. But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it. Personally, I hope that maybe we'll add links to @internetarchive from where we had the cache link before, within About This Result. It's such an amazing resource. For the information literacy goal of About The Result, I think it would also be a nice fit -- allowing people to easily see how a page changed over time. No promises. We have to talk to them, see how it all might go -- involves people well beyond me. But I think it would be nice all around.

As a reminder, anyone with a Search Console account can use URL Inspector to see what our crawler saw looking at their own page.

You're going to see cache: go away in the near future, too. But wait, I hear you ask, what about noarchive? We'll still respect that; no need to mess with it. Plus, others beyond us use it.