Google removed the Cached link in 2024. This puts a working one back on every search result — pointed at the Wayback Machine and archive.today.
For twenty years, every Google result had a Cached link — one click to see the page as Google last saw it. Vital when a page is down, paywalled, changed, or deleted. Google quietly killed it in 2024. Return Google Cache adds it straight back, using the Internet Archive instead, so the workflow you had is the workflow you have again.
A small Cached · archive.today · save now row appears under each search result, styled to match Google.
It reads the result links already on your screen and builds archive URLs locally. It makes no requests of its own and collects nothing.
Cached opens the latest Wayback snapshot, archive.today its mirror, save now archives the live page this instant.
Not on the Chrome Web Store yet — load it unpacked, it takes 20 seconds:
chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode (top right).extension folder.