How The Google Cache Feature Saved Me A Lot Of Effort And Time

We all know how far reaching Google, we constantly use many of their services such as Gmail, Adsense, Adwords, Google Earth, Google Search and their just released Google Chrome web browser. What we don’t know is that Google offers so much more than just that, services that are really minor and often overlooked by many people. One such service or more accurately called as a feature of Google Search is it’s cache feature.

The cache feature displays a cached version of a website. Now, this feature alone can be useful in so many ways such as seeing how much a website has changed over a short period of time, loading webpages which are slow to load or are down and reading something the owner has just removed recently.

The Google Cache feature just saved me a lot of time and effort recently. I had deleted one of my posts which had taken quite an amount of time to write and I had no backups of it. I was quite devastated when it occurred to me that I shouldn’t have deleted it and now I had no way or time to rewrite it again.

Well, if it weren’t for me being a little enterprising and the usefulness of the Google Cache, that might have been the end of the story, a bad ending mind you. However, luckily I was quite creative and suddenly remembered about the Google Cache feature of Google Search. I typed in the URL of the post and was hoping that Google had managed to index the page (it was quite new) before I had deleted it. I needn’t have worried though, the posts had been indexed by Google and after just clicking the cached link and copying and pasting the content right back on my blog I had sorted out the dilemma I was previously in .

Learning point: Next time when you are in a fix, try to think creatively about how to solve the problem. And if you are blogger, now you know how to use Google Cache as a last resort to get back the content of your post .

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