You aren't alone if you've been making Google searches these past few months and noticed missing cache results. On February 1st, 2024, Google's Search Liaison on Twitter officially confirmed that the feature has been axed. A quick and convenient link to cached versions of a webpage from the Google search result has been a staple of the search engine for well over a decade, but now it seems the most accessible version of the feature is gone entirely.
Technically, Google still archives search pages— for now. You can still use the "archive:[URL]" function in a Google search to pull up Google's latest archived copy of a given webpage. The image embedded below shows us using this command for the Tom's Hardware front page, since the original function is no longer available. According to the Search Liaison, this version of the feature is soon to disappear, too.
