Goodbye Google Cache – you were one of the best friends of litigators when it came to evidence-gathering. The Wayback Machine is obviously still there and a tremendous resource for longer term evidence, but for shorter term Google Cache was great.
(On the defending side, if you were savvy enough, you knew that you could request Google to remove a cached page using the Removals page if the content was no longer up to date, but how many tech-savvy litigators are there really? Still, I kept on being surprised at how many clients were in awe of (i) the fact that this could even be done, (ii) how efficient that was and (iii) the fact that a lawyer [of all people] knew about this)
I have used it in data protection/GDPR litigation, intellectualproperty cases, software disputes and even regarding consumerprotection and “unfair market practices” litigation, and I know it will be sorely missed.
(It’s far from the only useful digital source of evidence, but I wouldn’t want to reveal all tricks either)
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