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June 18, 2004

Google Has a Memory Like a Freakin Elephant

I recently deleted a blog entry that if put in the wrong hands could cause some trouble. However, if you do a google search for my blog, that entry shows up.
Is there something I can do to get rid of this forever?

Posted by: De at 06:30 PM | Comments (119) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Google will grab a new copy of your blog fairly soon, but until that happens, there's not much you can do.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at June 18, 2004 06:55 PM

2 I was afraid of that.
It's been over a week.

Posted by: DeAnna @ at June 18, 2004 06:56 PM

3 Google's terms of use say they won't hold cached pages if the owner doesn't want them saved. It doesn't say how to go about initiating an "uncache this" request though.

Check in and arround their FAQs and service areas.

Posted by: Jim @ at June 18, 2004 07:22 PM

4 Thanks J-Snooz!

Posted by: DeAnna @ at June 18, 2004 07:34 PM

5 Ok, I dug around google and found that you can put a meta tag in your code that actually tells them not to show cached material.
Place this in the section:


The bad news is that they "crawl" the sites once a month and you have to contact them to get rid of the cached material they already have.

Just incase anyone else was interested

Posted by: DeAnna @ at June 18, 2004 07:41 PM

6 DeAnna: MT parsed the code in your comment. To get it to not parse the code, replace the open bracket with & l t ; [with no spaces]

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at June 18, 2004 10:57 PM

7 Oops!
I didn't realize that...sorry!

this goes in the HEAD section:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

Posted by: DeAnna @ at June 18, 2004 11:04 PM

8 I think this is what DeAnna wanted to show us:

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7. How should I request that Google not return cached material from my site?

Google stores many web pages in its cache to retrieve for users as a back-up in case the server where the page resides temporarily fails. Users can view the cached version by choosing the "Cached" link on the search results page. If you don't want your content to be accessible through Google's cache, use a <META> tag with a CONTENT="NOARCHIVE" attribute. To do so, place the following line in the <HEAD> section of your documents:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

This tag tells robots not to archive the page. Google will continue to index and follow links from the page, but will not present cached material to users. If you want to allow other robots to cache your content, but prevent Google's robots from doing so, use the following tag:

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

Please note that the change will take effect the next time Google crawls the page containing the NOARCHIVE directive in a <META> tag. If you want this change to take effect sooner, the site owner must contact us and request immediate removal of archived content. Note also that the NOARCHIVE directive only controls whether a cached version of the page is made available. To control whether the page is indexed, use CONTENT="NOINDEX". To control whether links are followed, use CONTENT="NOFOLLOW". For more information, see the Robots Exclusion page.

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at June 18, 2004 11:07 PM

9 Deanna, I guess we were doing that at the same time... didn't mean to step on your toes!

Posted by: Madfish Willie @ at June 18, 2004 11:08 PM

10 haha! That's ok. Yours was better anyway!

Posted by: DeAnna @ at June 18, 2004 11:30 PM

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