I decided to upgrade to IE7 the other day because I figured it couldn’t be any worse than IE6. The upgrade went smoothly and immediately I noticed a few things.

1. I like the minimal UI. It’s clean and uncluttered.
2. It’s got tabs but it doesn’t do mouse gestures.

3. For some strange reason, Google was the default search engine.

After doing a few searches I began to notice that something just wasn’t right… There are no “cached” and “similar pages” links in the search results. My first thought was “Why would google remove that?”. Why indeed? So I fired up my firefox and did the same search and the links are there. This makes me wonder who’s playing the devil here? Is it Google purposely not giving the links or is it IE7 removing them so we’ll use Microsoft Live Search (which happen to have “cached” links). Or maybe it’s something I’ve completely missed. If anyone knows the answer shoot me a note.