Google Search is rolling out a change to its About this page/result feature where it includes links to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This enabling searches to view the previous version of a given webpage.
Google added this feature likely because of the complaints about Google removing the cache link from that feature.
What Google said. “We know that many people, including those in the research community, value being able to see previous versions of webpages when available. That’s why we’ve added links to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to our ‘About this page’ feature, to give people quick context and make this helpful information easily accessible through Search,” a Google spokesperson told us.
How it works. To access this feature, you can click on the three dots near a search result. That will bring up the About this result feature and within there you will be able select “More About This Page” to reveal a link to the Wayback Machine page for that website.
I don’t see this feature yet but it should be somewhere in this panel when it fully rolls out:
Update: Google sent me a screenshot of what the link looks like in the more about this page section: