Quite a few times, I’ve run searches (from here forward, assume all searches I refer to are run in Google) for some pretty random stuff only to find the page I want cannot be displayed. This is quite a bummer when there are only a few results for what you search. If this is the case, instead of starting over, try opening the cached page. A lot of search engines have this capability and it is a great way to view either expired or ‘dead’ content.

In Google, if a cached page is available, there will be a link below the search result titled ‘Cached’. If you click this link, you will see the content of the page from the last time Google archived it. Granted the content may not be the most current, but for the most part since the result matched your search query, it should be along the lines of what you are looking for.

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