Google Search
Browsing cached pages in Google begins the same way as any other Google search. Once you've entered a search query and see the results, click the arrow next to the URL and select the Saved Copy to view Google's most recently saved versions of the pages.
When the site loads, Google notifies you that this is an outdated version and indicates the date it was created. There is also an option to view only the text version of the page and the source code. You will not be able to navigate to other pages and still remain in the cache version. If you try to follow the link, the current version of the site will open.
What is cache and how does it work
The function is built into almost all modern programs. The browser stores the information the user views to reduce the time it takes to reload content. All files are stored in the temporary clipboard folder, which is most often located on drive C. This includes: texts, html files with layout data and pictures. The number of saved materials is limited only by the amount of built-in memory of the computer and the settings of the individual browser.
Cash is necessary to speed up the system. Every time the PC owner opens a link, the browser saves all published information to the selected address. When you request the same address again, the browser finds the required file in the temporary data folder and downloads it, correcting the changed information. This reduces traffic consumption and avoids overloading the line. Each duplicate is stored in the device’s memory, so the user can even download content that is not available on the Internet.
Search engines are also capable of creating copies in cash. If the site owner deleted it or the resource was blocked, the user will still be able to view the page that interests him. It will not be possible to see the latest changes or make any edits. Users will also not be able to:
- leave comments;
- evaluate records;
- publish new materials.
How to find a site's cache in Google
To open a copy in a search engine, you must enter the name of the site and the article of interest in the request. Select the appropriate option from the results found. To the right of the address is an arrow pointing down. By clicking on it, the user opens additional options. To download a file from Google cache, you need to click on the “Saved copy” button. The browser opens a new tab in which the page of interest will be displayed. You can open the resource directly, without using search results: to do this, enter the request cash.link, where the word “link” is the domain of the required service.
Interesting fact!
The search engine caches all links daily, so by downloading a copy, the computer owner will see the latest available version of the site.
Searching for a copy of a page in Yandex
The mechanics of cash on the Russian resource are no different from the Google search engine. To open the copy of the site you are interested in, you need to make a request for its domain. Next to the address there is an arrow from which a menu of advanced options drops out. To load a duplicate resource from the cache, select the “Saved copy” option. In the tab that opens, Yandex always indicates the download date of the displayed version of the site.
Wayback Machine
There are organizations that are trying to preserve the history of the Internet. The best-known such organization is the non-profit Internet Archive, which stores websites, text, video, audio, software and images that are difficult to find elsewhere. You can also view older versions of the website on the Wayback Machine.
Enter a URL and the archive search engine will display a calendar showing when the Wayback Machine saved the page. Click on a date on the calendar to see what the site looked like on that day. The Wayback Machine is a great way to study internet history.
Option 1: Browser Offline Mode
To save traffic and increase page loading speed, browsers use a cache. What is cache? Cache
(from the English
cache
) - disk space on a computer allocated for temporary storage of files, which include web pages.
So try viewing the deleted page from your browser cache. To do this, go offline
.
Note: Offline viewing of pages is only possible if the user has visited the page previously and it has not yet been removed from the cache.
How to enable offline browser mode?
For Google Chrome
,
Yandex.Browser
, etc., offline mode is available only as an experiment.
Enable it on the page: chrome://flags/ - find “Offline cache mode” there and click the “ Enable
” link.
Turn offline mode on or off in Google Chrome browser
In Firefox
(29 and older) open the menu (the button with three lines) and click on the “
Development
” item (wrench), and then the “
Work offline
” item.
Turn offline mode on or off in Firefox
In Opera
Click the “Opera” button, find the “
Settings
” item in the menu, and then click the “
Work offline
” item.
How to enable or disable offline mode in Opera?
In Internet Explorer
- press the Alt button, (in the menu that appears) select “
File
” and click the “
Offline mode
” menu item.
How to turn off or turn off offline mode in Internet Explorer?
How to disable offline mode in Internet Explorer 11?
Let me clarify - in IE 11
The developers have removed the offline mode switch.
The question arises - how to disable offline mode in Internet Explorer 11?
Doing the opposite will not work, reset your browser settings.
To do this, close running applications, including the browser. Press the Win+R key combination and (in the Run window that opens) enter: inetcpl.cpl, press the Enter button. In the Internet Properties window that opens, go to the Advanced
"
On the tab that opens, find and click the “ Restore advanced settings
” button, and then the “
Reset…
” button that appears.
In the confirmation window, check the “ Delete personal settings
” box and click the “
Reset
” button.
Browser extensions
There are browser extensions for all occasions, including for accessing a cached version of the site.
Add the Web Cache Viewer extension to Chrome and right-click on any page to view the Google or Wayback Machine version. An extension called View Page Archive & Cache for Chrome or Firefox goes even further and allows you to view cached versions of web pages from numerous search engines such as Bing, Baidu, Yandex.
Going beyond Google
It is clear that not only the Google search engine is engaged in saving pages and sites in the cache. Users have several more options for how to find a deleted article or other data from the site:
- Yandex cache. The system works on the same principle, but the saved versions may differ from those stored by Google. To open the Yandex cache, you need to enter the site address in the search and go to the saved copy using the green arrow (just like when working with Google).
- A specialized search engine, CachedView.com, which is not limited to Google, but offers users access to the Internet World Archive. It works on the principle of Nevkontakte.com.
- Another interesting service that is worth paying attention to is located at archive.is. Its main function is to allow the user to independently save the necessary pages of the site. The service does not require registration and is free. An additional advantage of the archive is the ability to search for data among pages that other users have saved.
Thus, even materials deleted from the Internet can be found and restored. Which method should I choose for this? We recommend that you do not stop at one method, but try several to be sure to find the right page or site.
Option 4: Archive.today
A simple and (unfortunately) passive service for creating copies of web pages is Archive.today. You can access a deleted page if it was copied by another user to the service archive. To do this, enter the URL in the first (red) form and click the “ submit url”
».
Adding and searching for copies of web pages on the Archive.today site
After this, try to find the page using the second (blue) form.
View copies of pages on Archive.today
Short link: https://goo.gl/M0atyn
I recommend!
I thought: What should I do if the page is not deleted?
It happens that it is simply impossible to access the site. I found an article by Victor Tomilin
, which is called “I can’t access the site” - where the author not only describes 4 ways to solve the problem, but also recorded a visual video.
How to read deleted messages on VK: true or false
Forwarding with the help of an interlocutor - method one
You need to ask the interlocutor to forward the necessary part of the correspondence. You can send no more than a hundred messages at once.
Requesting data from the archive - method two
If there are a lot of messages, it may not be possible to recover them all. The social network Vkontakte sets a limit on the number of messages - no more than 15 million messages for one profile.
Once the 15 million message limit is reached, old messages begin to be automatically deleted in a random order.
Instructions on how to read deleted messages on VK:
- Ask your interlocutor to go to the page
- At the bottom of the page, click on the “Request archive” item.
- Select "Messages" only.
- Confirm the action with a password.
After the archive is created, the user will receive a notification via personal VK messages. To download a file, you need to confirm the download via SMS - the archive file is a folder where there is a messages directory and additional elements.
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In the messages directory you need to find the folder with the required remote dialogue ID. It is this folder that the interlocutor will have to send. For ease of reading, you need to delete all other directories in messages, also delete the index.html file, after which you can send the folder with the required ID.
Through the VK application cache - method three
This method makes it possible to restore a certain part of the dialogue that may have been saved in the cache. The method will not work if the dialogue has already been deleted on the mobile device.
If messages are deleted in the web version of VK, then you need to turn off the Internet on your mobile device and completely shut down the VK application. Then you need to do the following:
- Install SQLite Database Editor;
- Obtain ROOT rights on the device and give permission to use the application;
How to read deleted messages in the new version of the VKontakte application
You need to do the following:
- Find the “VK” client in the list of applications;
- In the list that opens, select vkim.sqlite;
- Select messages;
- Click on the magnifying glass icon;
- Enter the dialogue id;
- In the “Where to search” column, select dialog_id;
- Select “Search”;
- All available dialogs remaining in the cache will open.
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How to read deleted messages in older versions of the application, in VK mp3 mod, VK Coffe
You need to do the following:
- Find in the list of VK applications;
- Select vk.db;
- Select messages;
- Click on the magnifying glass icon;
- Enter the dialogue id;
- In the “Where to search” column, select “Peer”;
- Click on “Search”.
All available dialogs remaining in the cache will open.
How to determine the dialog ID
To determine the dialog ID, it must not be deleted. We perform the following actions:
How to retrieve pages from the Yandex cache?
to partially restore sites , namely, to extract the text of some articles (indexed) from the Yandex cache.
How can I do that? We enter the name of site.ru into the Yandex address bar. Our website appears in the first position. “more” link
, and behold, all the pages are in front of us.
You won't be able to follow them, because... they are no longer on the server, but you can click the “copy” and see the page in the Yandex cache. So I pulled out all the pages of my sites that were there.
You can also get the site from the web archive https://archive.org/web/. This is for the case when a lot of time has passed since the unavailability (from 3 months), and Yandex has removed all pages from the search results. The history of sites is stored in this archive for many years.
