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I want to look at a Google cached version of a webpage, but can't find it through the usual mechanisms, as per this related question.

Is there a way to modify the URL in the address bar to take me to the last cached page for a specific URL?

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You can access the cached version for any page that has been saved by Google with this:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://example.com/

Change http://example.com/ to any URL. You can also create a custom search engine on Chrome or a Firefox keyword to go to cached versions automatically by adding a keyword before the current URL address.

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If you use Google Chrome, just use this query to get the cache page from Google:

cache:http://www.example.net/

For example you can use:

cache:http://www.example.com/catalog/item/6395190/8298122.htm

in Google search to find the corresponding cache page.

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Google has shut off access to its web cache, which had been available via webcache.googleusercontent.com and the cache: address space.

https://x.com/searchliaison/status/1753156161509916873

It's been unavailable in any form since mid-2024.

There are no close substitutes. There's archive.org, archive.is, ghostarchive.org, but nothing that archives the bulk of the sites out there and allows access.

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