Google fixes the web's brokenness (with a little help)
Be 404 no more!
Genuinely useful widget here: Jonathan Rentzsh has built a new bookmarklet that can instantly pull Google's cache of the page your browser is currently looking at. Fuse took the idea and built an even better version.
Next time you hit a 404, you need not slink away disappointed. Add this neat little Googlehack to your 'Favourites' and you're just a click or two away from pulling the most recent snapshot of the page back from Google's cache. Neat!
Just tested it on this page of a venerable Toronto PR agency that seems to have mysteriously vanished from the face of the Earth in the last two weeks. Using the GoogleCacheHack brings up this.
Credit to Jon Udell for the original pointer and some interesting thoughts about the Net's role in our global race memory.
