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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Cached Pages

Sometimes your company , colleges or government firewall may have blocked access to particular webpages, but you still be able to access it by viewing a cached copy of it on a search engine!
                       All you have to do is:
Step1-Start your browser and connect to any popular search engine of your choice .I am going to use Google  for this example.
Step 2-Search for blocked webpage that you wish to access.(In this case I am going to search for the keywords 'why this kolaveri di wikipedia'.
Within the search result that get displayed, look for the relevant blocked page that u wish to access and click on the CACHED link below it or next to it to access its cached copy. On Google ,in case you do not see the cached link below the search results, then u need to move your mouse over the instant preview
button next to search result and the on the right hand side preview space, the CACHED link will appear .
The best part about the technique is that network will think that u r simply accessing Google(which may not be blocked), but in reality u r using the search engine to access blocked content. As simple as that!
When u clicked on cached link of a search result, then within a few seconds, Google will open the most recent cached copy of that page and display it for u. Irrespective of whether that page may be currently down or may have been blocked by your network, u r still able to see it.
It is also possible to directly view a cached copy of a particular webpages or URL by using simple search operators on Google.For example, on Google if u were to search for cache:www.timesofindia.com,it will automatically display the most recent cached copy of Times Of India home page.

Note-When u r viewing a cached page, typically google will mention at the top the date n time from which the cached copy  is being displayed.This may vary from webpages to webpages.
It is possible for a web developer to specify that google should not Cached its webpage and in such a case the cached link or the cache operator  may not work or may just display the most current version of the page

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