when i search some text in google i get this specific term. can anyone what does it mean and what is that used for?
2006-12-06 00:27:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
A "cache" is a temporary storage to keep data for a short period of time, to get faster access to something.
In Googles case, the cache is a copy of the website you searched for at the time when google was visiting the site.
The Google cache is useful to find older versions of a website for research purposes or to get to the site when the original site is down for maintenance or other failures.
When visiting the cached page, you visit a copy from some time in the past, that is stored in Googles system, not the real page.
2006-12-06 00:32:41 · answer #1 · answered by Arminator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back in the "prehistoric" days of computers, the Internet was so slow that it could take several mintues to open a web page. So browsers were designed that when they opened a page they made a copy ( or cache) of it on your Computer. If you returned to the same page during the same session, rather then download it again, the browser would open the local copy on your PC instead. Speeds them up a lot. You will notice this even on your computer today. If you click the "back" button, the page comes up a lot faster then when you first went to the page. It is reading in the cached version of the page.
This can sometimes cause problems, If a page changes, and your PC is still going back to a locally cached version of the page, you will not see the change. This is why you need from time to time to clear out the cached files on your PC.
2006-12-06 08:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chaced means there is a copy of that you can access,
on googleseacht a cached site means you can see the site like the monent google indexed it, usefull if the site doen't exists anymore or has changed.
The browser also has a cache were he keep the most common visited site by you to speed up the loading processs by reading the local copy rather taking in again from the internet
2006-12-06 08:32:28 · answer #3 · answered by midday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A local copy - accessed faster than the main copy
2006-12-06 08:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by amania_r 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cached means when u look at a website, that the website is in the computer "memory". your cache is filled with all the websites u look at.
2006-12-06 08:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋