Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
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Google will no longer allow public access to its caches. I doubt they’ve stopped keeping caches for their own use.

Yeah now it’s just for feeding the shitty LLM every software company feels the need to shoehorn into whatever they possibly can.

Now that junk AI content has polluted the public web, access to pre-LLM content has become far more valuable—that’s why Reddit shut down their public APIs too.