Missing Google cached links

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Missing Google cached links

I've posted this question on the Safari forum, but I thought I'd try my luck here as well.

Last night when I did some Google searches, I was surprised to find that none of the search results included the usual cached links or links to similar pages. This isn't a problem with Explorer and when I use Ask.com in Safari the cached links are there as usual. So where are the missing links in Google?

There doesn't seem to be anything in Google preferences or Safari preferences to explain this.

emac, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 640 megs RAM

Posted on Apr 3, 2006 8:38 AM

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Answer 1

JMVP

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Apr 3, 2006 10:17 AM in response to thaxted

Safari/Google (and Firefox/Google) are showing the usual cached and silimar pages linksi n the search results pages now for me, and like you I don't see anything in the Google or Safari preferences that would suppress those links. Do you get the same missing links problem if you log on to a different user account?

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thaxted Author

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Apr 3, 2006 12:22 PM in response to JMVP

Thanks for your message. I set up a new account just to see and unfortunately I still have the same problem.

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thaxted Author

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Apr 3, 2006 5:37 PM in response to thaxted

Perhaps this is a clue. If I use google.co.uk there are no missing links.

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thaxted Author

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Apr 5, 2006 7:57 PM in response to JMVP

JMVP,

Just thought you'd like to know that Google support suggested that I empty the cache and delete cookies. It was the latter that did the trick.

Cheers

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JMVP

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Apr 6, 2006 5:49 AM in response to thaxted

thaxted,

Thanks for letting us know that fix! It'd be interesting to know just what kind of cookie settings would eliminate Google's cached/similar links, but at least thanks to you we know a fix.

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Answer 6

May 20, 2006 1:46 PM in response to thaxted

Re FireFox-Google cached-similar search options - mine were missing as well.

Using your clues, I deleted the Google related cookies ONLY, and this worked - a restart of the browser may be necessary.

This problem seemed to occur when I installed the FireFox toolbar...which is usefull.

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