Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by seydor on Sunday September 15, 2024 @04:16AM
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That was never Google's job anyway. It boggles my mind how there is very little public investment in maintaining information, while tons of money is being wasted keeping ancilarry things alive that nobody uses. We should have multiple publicly-funded internet archives, and public communication infrastructure fallback, like email.
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Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by Almondsetat on Sunday September 15, 2024 @05:07AM
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Most people want to know what is happening here and now, and if they want information about the past they prefer the latest version. Archival is a liability, not an asset, in Google's case
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by 1equalsequals1 on Sunday September 15, 2024 @05:12AM
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What is Google's job? Is it only to leech off the public internet?
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by pacifika on Sunday September 15, 2024 @05:29AM
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Broker ads intelligence
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by withzombies on Sunday September 15, 2024 @07:25AM
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The cache link predates Google's ads business
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by karlgkk on Sunday September 15, 2024 @05:47AM
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Use the internet for a week without any search engine.
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by tux3 on Sunday September 15, 2024 @05:54AM
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Google is not, in fact, the only search engine.
For most users the internet has 5, maybe 10 web sites. I can use Wikipedia search or LLMs when I have questions.
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by fuzzy_biscuit on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:55AM
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I see your point with Wikipedia, but the writing is on the wall for LLMs: since they are replacing search engines for some users, it's only a matter of time before that experience gets polluted with "data-driven" ad clutter too.
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by karlgkk on Sunday September 15, 2024 @04:14PM
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Every search engine and also LLMs engage in the same problematic behavior.
Maybe just use Wikipedia search only then!
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by meiraleal on Sunday September 15, 2024 @06:45AM
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Compared to the experience of using google without ad Block?
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by rat9988 on Sunday September 15, 2024 @05:22AM
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Well, you can put it like that, or you can answer in good faith.
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by amy-petrik-214 on Sunday September 15, 2024 @10:03AM
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As a private sector company their job is maximizing revenue forever.
There old slogan was "don't be evil"
they have a new slogan, which is "vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears"
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by tetris11 on Sunday September 15, 2024 @06:01AM
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But they made it their job, got people to depend on it, and then yanked it away without telling anyone first.
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
by interactivecode on Sunday September 15, 2024 @08:02AM
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Part of the ideas behind the EU’s “very large online platform” rules. Basically saying that if your platform gets big enough where its basically important infrastructure, that then comes with responsibilities.
I would welcome some rules and regulations about this kinds of stuff. Can you imagine that google wakes up one day and decides to kill gmail? It would cause so many problems. It’s already impossible that even as a paid gmail user you can’t get proper support in case something goes awry. Sure you can argue they can decide what ever they want with their business. But if you have this many users, I do think at some point that comes with some obligations of support, quality and continued service.