Comments on: Firefox extension bounty details revealed

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:36:21 +0000

I think the “site:” search is a better solution than checking the cache.

Has anyone implemented this yet? If not, I’d like to claim the bounty. I have a working prototype.

By: Online Media

Online Media — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:02:03 +0000

Hey guys,

This extension already exists – it’s part of the Google Toolbar. If you enable the PageRank feature:

Settings –> Options –> More –> PageRank & Page Info

Then click on the PageRank icon and select cached snapshot of page you’ll be taken to Google’s cache of the page.

If a page is in Google’s index, then it will be cached, end of story.

The only drawback to accessing the cache command via the toolbar is that the data is only updated every couple of months or so, and so sometimes a page will not seem cached in the toolbar but will be when using the cache operator on google directly.

P.S. Love the blog, and keep flying the Ubuntu flag – I’m loving Fiesty

By: Sander

Sander — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:50:08 +0000

Using the cache: operator won’t be suffice: some pages don’t want to be cached or just aren’t cached yet.

By: EvilDead

EvilDead — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:22:46 +0000

I may be dumb, but what’s the point of knowing if a page is indexed by Google?

By: Ubuntu Tutorials

Ubuntu Tutorials — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:07:52 +0000

salty-horse – you make a good point. cache: would work as well.

By: salty-horse

salty-horse — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:23:37 +0000

that was a BASE tag up there

By: salty-horse

salty-horse — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:46:08 +0000

Isn’t it faster to use cache: instead of site: and check just the second line of the returned html for a “” tag?
(Of course, google may change it and the extension would require update)