Another Reason to Love Google
I blew up my blog today. I was trying to add the little icons for feeds that appear at the bottom of each article and I accidentally deleted the whole sidebar of the main page. And since I'm a computer programmer, I naturally don't have any backups of anything, so I did what any normal human being would do: I panicked.
Then, just at the point that I was about to lie down under my desk and weep for a minute, I remembered a little feature that I had seen on Google a bazillion times, but that I had never used.
Have you ever noticed that Google keeps a cached copy of web sites?
Well, they do. And I clicked on the cached copy of my web site to see it as it looked five days ago. And it was there and it was right. So I copied the HTML for the sidebar from that version and made a few minor code changes and I was (almost) back in business. How about that?
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Sweet!
I'm glad you thought of that. What a time-saver!
I use the "cached" links all the time because Google automatically highlights your search words in the text of the page when you click through to it.
Posted by: Jeff | June 1, 2006 10:20 AM
Oops! I like Google, too.
I know it's different (but kind of the same), but have you explored this web site:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
It's pretty fun...
Posted by: Laura Bybee | June 1, 2006 10:34 AM
That cache is useful. I found myself in that situation at least once a few years ago, and did the same thing. A couple of months ago, I got a panicked phone call from someone I was working with on a home page was accidentally deleted. She was pretty upset. The Google cache was like the calvary, coming to the rescue again.
Posted by: Bill | June 23, 2006 04:30 PM