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Pages in the page cache modified after being brought in are called dirty pages. [5] Since non-dirty pages in the page cache have identical copies in secondary storage (e.g. hard disk drive or solid-state drive), discarding and reusing their space is much quicker than paging out application memory, and is often preferred over flushing the dirty pages into secondary storage and reusing their space.
A search engine cache is a cache of web pages that shows the page as it was when it was indexed by a web crawler. Cached versions of web pages can be used to view the contents of a page when the live version cannot be reached , has been altered or taken down .
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Thereafter a copy of that page is made to a "server cache" on secondary servers, and until the page is changed again, that cached page will be shown. A change in a template puts updates of articles that use the template into a waiting list, called the Job queue, and the page is updated once it has reached its turn. Smaller changes to the cache ...
A forward cache is a cache outside the web server's network, e.g. in the client's web browser, in an ISP, or within a corporate network. [3] A network-aware forward cache only caches heavily accessed items. [4] A proxy server sitting between the client and web server can evaluate HTTP headers and choose whether to store web content.
Note that as of early 2024, Google has removed links to its cached pages from Google search results (known informally as 'Google cache'). The article from Ars Technica in the link above describes an alternative method to access cached pages on Google that may still work.
Temporary Internet Files is a folder on Microsoft Windows which serves as the browser cache for Internet Explorer to cache pages and other multimedia content, such as video and audio files, from websites visited by the user. This allows such websites to load more quickly the next time they are visited.