Google Search will take you ‘Wayback’ with links to the Internet Archive

Google Search is present adding links to archived websites successful the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. That’s a spot of bully quality for anybody lamenting the disappearance of the cached pages link from Google’s results.

The Internet Archive hosts billions of archived webpages, arsenic it notes successful its blog post contiguous astir the change. The Wayback Machine is simply a precise adjuvant instrumentality for looking astatine older versions of websites to spot what whitethorn person changed compared to past versions, which, successful immoderate cases, tin spell backmost decades.

Google Search liaison Danny Sullivan wrote successful February that helium hoped to bring Internet Archive links into hunt results aft the institution deprecated cached results. With this blog post, it seems he’s present gotten his wish. Google besides confirmed the alteration to 9to5Google.

You tin get to the results by clicking the 3 dots adjacent to a circumstantial nexus successful the results, past click “More astir this page” to get to a nexus to the Wayback Machine page, the station says. I tested this and didn’t find immoderate links to the Internet Archive’s integer backlog. Although the alteration is seemingly rolling retired today, it often takes immoderate clip earlier Google’s changes amusement up for everyone.