Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
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Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.::Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.

  • wosat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    9 months ago

    To be clear, Google will still be storing copies of the pages they crawl. They just won’t be making those copies available to end users.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Absolutely. This is just locking off users access and is an example of enshittification. 0 benefit to users but benefits to Google (more click through to sponsored links, and blocking AI content crawlers probably)