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I don't agree this is necessarily bad. Arguably, "view cache" is a feature for power-users that know what they're doing.

Moving the cache link into that pop-up did simplify the user interface in the most common case, in which the user just wants to view the real link. It no longer has to be rendered for every result.

IMO it just takes some getting used to that the cache link has been moved. Or are you viewing pages from cache that regularly that the extra clicks/mouse moves are a problem?

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Depends on the users, for example my non-techie partner always clicks on the cache link just because it highlights the words that she searched for on the page.

For some people it may be an important move

Hmm yes I can see it used for that. However, that will only work for simple passive pages. "view cache" is inherently incompatible with pages that render from javascript (or that make extra requests to get the content). These get broken, and as a growing amount of sites is affected this might be another one of the reasons for obscuring the option.

Pages that render from javascript or make extra requests to get the content were broken already. They fail REST and thus they're not easily cacheable. We shouldn't encourage them outside of those specific web apps for which linking is not a relevant operation.

Yes, yes, yes. I almost always click on the cached link, because the highlighted search terms allow me to find what I'm looking for so much more quickly. This fundamentally changes the way I use the web. Thanks a lot, google :(

yeah, i can't agree with the author's assessment that this isn't a UI improvement. part of a good UI is to only present the elements that a user needs. they have moved an obscure feature to an obscure location. it amuses me that there are so many people in the comments here complaining both that google has become less minimal, and that they've removed stuff - minimalism is less stuff.

Personally, I'm not using the mouse, so any mouse moves are problematic. But I won't demand Google to change just for me, of course.

Actually I'm a little surprised there doesn't seem to be any keyboard shortcuts for invoking the preview.

Use the up and down keys to page through the results. When a result is highlighted, you can press the right key to show the preview.

Kind of screws over tablet or smartphone users however. (and no, google, i do not want to use your crappy mobile version, that is why i set my useragent to 'desktop', yet you don't listen!)

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