Google Adds New Feature To Cached Pages

Last week Google added a new feature to how they present their cache of pages from their crawls - you can now see the cached text only of any page - for instance, below is the header of their cache of Yahoo's home page.

This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.yahoo.com/.
G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.
The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting.
This cached page may reference images which are no longer available. Click here for the cached text only.
To link to or bookmark this page, use the following url:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com
Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.

Basically any cached URL which has this appended to it - &strip=1 - will show the cached page with no images, and any alt tags - and without CSS formatting.

Theories vary as to why - I think that perhaps this Google's shot across bow to let webmasters know "we see you".

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