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  Hate those 404's?  Page not found?  Google lets you see what might have been if you'd gotten there sooner!  Nothing lets the air out of my sails faster than a 404 error in a search engine. With Google, you can now view the contents of a dead page.

Where there's a will, there's a way. And where there's a cached page, there's content. Just as your browser saves graphics and text from websites in your system's cache, search engines save copies of all the pages that they index.

Google allows you to view these copies.

  1. To test this, go to Google (www.google.com).

     

  2. Search for "Call for Help" (with the quotes).

     

  3. At the bottom of the first listing (to the right of the URL), click on the link that says "Cached." Instead of seeing our new, redesigned site, you'll see a copy of our old site. This is the page that Google saw when it first indexed our URL.

This will work with any content that Google has saved in its cache. Try it next time you get a dead link.

Warning: Be careful if you're using this information for research. The webmaster might have taken the site off-line because it was out of date.

( From TechTV's Megan Morrone)
 

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