Personally, and I am waiting for its deployment, it seems to me that it is one of the best news that Google can give usand in this case I’m talking specifically about its search engine, which is the origin of the giant in the technology sector that the company has become. And when its name is mentioned, although a number of products and services immediately come to mind, we all, without exception, think of the search engine, which today, according to StatCounter, accounts for 90% of the online search engine market share.

Although its position in this market is more than consolidated, to the extent that “google” has become synonymous with Internet searches, in spol. They are very aware that they cannot relaxas its competitors are constantly looking for a way to differentiate themselves, trying to take away at least part of its gigantic slice of the pie. We saw this recently with the reinvention of Bing with the arrival of Copilot, to which the search engine quickly responded with Bard, later Gemini.

On the other hand, it is well known that Google changes its products and services frequently. Sometimes features are added, but in others the change is reversed, that is, features that were previously present are removed. And that’s what we experienced at the beginning of this year, when the company decided to remove the page caching feature from the search enginewhich allowed access to a previous version of the web pages that were displayed in the results, a particularly useful feature if one is listed among the results that is not currently available.

When this feature was removed, many voices pointed to the main alternative, Archive.org’s Wayback Machine, the largest and most comprehensive repository of web page versions. Well, we found great news today because, as we read on Engadget, Google search will now link to Archive.org. The feature has already started rolling out, although it seems like it will be rolling out gradually, so we don’t know when it will be available to everyone, and of course, its reach in terms of sites to look at.

Its operation will be very simple, just click on the three vertical dots that appear to the right of the URL in the search result, and in the panel that appears, indicate that we want to see the cached version of the site in question. This will take us directly to Wayback, where we can check the number of images available and access them in the usual way with this service.