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Friday 24 July, 2009

Access Text-Only Google Cache For Any Website Link Directly

i like the plain text version of google cache, it is very bandwidh effective, and positioning of text is pretty good.

here is a method of quickly fetching google cache for any valid link using firefox.

bookmark any of the two links given below.
[for normal cache]
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:%s
[for text-only cache]
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:%s&strip=1

set the keyword of bookmark as cache or something of your choice.

after doing it, open a new tab, and type "cache http://www.yahoo.com", and you would reach google cache directly.
NOTE: you need to type complete url in including http://

what happens here is, %s in your bookmark accepts the weblink provided by you.
addition of parameter strip=1 give you pure text-only version

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