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Comment by hk__2 | Hacker News Reader

404 error.

Every time I mention this on HN, at least 15 people upvote it - which means they didn't know about it. So I feel obliged to repeat it again and again (as I usually use this method a few times every week and it's tremendously useful for me):

If you want to get Google's cached version of a webpage, just type

    cache:[url]
    e.g.: cache:https://github.com/quartzjer/TeleHash/issues/5

in the search bar and press return.

*in Chrome's search bar.

I know, it's a petty technicality. Safari says it can't open the specified address, and Firefox doesn't understand the URL. I'm even more certain IE will explode if I was to try, but I can't at the moment. From what I remember, IE can't even parse a raw IP address without explicitly putting http:// in front of it.

You're right. But you can do a `cache:http://...` in google.com's search bar, which is how I do it. And unless I'm mistaken, Chrome's built-in search bar is called OmniBar, so my wording was (incidentally) correct! ;-)

Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

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