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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Sign up to join this communityI 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?
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.
http://
prefix; curiously, there is at least one URL that doesn't work, however: http://www.cnn.com/
; any idea why?: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://… (variations without http://
and www
don't work either).
– mklement0
Jul 22 '14 at 18:30
cache:http://example.com/
, which redirects to the cached page (as pointed out by the other answer on this page). This would "work" on any browser with Google as the default search engine. However, my solution will work even if you use other search engines, and it goes straight to the cached page instead of going through the Google search redirection.
– user14334
Jan 9 '16 at 0:46
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.
cache:http://example.com
– Xeoncross
Jun 6 '13 at 21:29
cache:<url>
works in Chrome - if nothing Chromium sources should highlight what it's doing. – Sathyajith Bhat♦ May 25 '11 at 5:12