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.
It’s like pre atomic steel!
This is a very reasonable deduction.
The really bad thing is that it’s only a matter of time before the Internet Archive is sued into oblivion. People are uploading full copyrighted movies and there’s no moderation at all. It’s not just cacheing that is at risk here either.
Amongst other things, the Internet Archive is the home of the Prelinger Archives, the largest collection of educational, industrial and other ephemeral films from the silent era on. If the IA goes down, the only place to access those would be commercial outlets like YouTube.
And it will be a real shame.
its a shame its so large that no one has the money to clone it to their own servers (that i know of)
I’d recommend everyone to archive their pages through the Internet Archive instead, as that non-profit seems to be more concerned with ethics than corporations such as Google.
2/2/2024
That article is from February.
Is that the UK or US date format?
Yes.
The Slovenian one.
It’s a good thing we have archive.org then.
For now…
That’s fine, I don’t trust Google anyways. Any real backing up or archiving of internet culture can’t be done for profit or it will be shut down when not profitable or enshitified.