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Not only that, can also view website when its server was gone down, or imagine some content that was published on a website ,which was then taken down a few days later for some reason.

Now, Let us assume that your college or company has blocked access to the ‘Why this Kolaveri Di ‘ wikipedia page, but you really want to access it.

All you have to do is:

STEP 1:  Start your browser and connect to any popular search engine of your choice.
STEP 2:  Search for the blocked webpage that you wish to access.

Within the search results that get displayed, look for the relevant blocked webpage that you wish to access and click on its 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 you need to move your mouse over the instant preview button next to the search result and then on the right handside preview space, the CACHED link will appear.

It is also possible to view a cached copy of a site by mentioning its URL this way:

Eg: I need to view www.thehindu.com

Then I search as cache:www.thehindu.com

This will automatically display the most recent cached copy of The Hindu home page.

I’ve used it……..but HOW IT WORKS ?
All popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and others ,spider the entire Internet,recording all metadata details and keywords that appear on all pages.

This recorded metadata and keywords of all pages are then used to determine a page’s quality and rank in search results.

Along with this ,most search engines also take a snapshot of all webpages on Internet and store a cache copy of them.

And this becomes an extremely usefull one for us, and it is a simple but clever trick of fooling local firewall, bypassing any basic filters ! Of course, I use this to watch a cached copy of a site, which has been blocked by my college’s Sonic Firewall.