‘Cached’ would let you see webpages as Google sees them, which was useful in a range of different situations. But Google claims it’s less necessary now that internet reliability has improved.
Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”