How many real pages indexed by Google ?

As long as I understand, a page removed
from a website, or deeply edited,
can stay monthes, even years in the
Google cache. If this is the case, it
means that part of Google cache is
not up to date.

Same for Google index. An information
(say: private datas about one person)
that is removed from a website AND
from Google cache stays in the Google
index for a long time (some say: for
monthes, even years). If this is the
case, it means that part of Google
index is not actual.

Here is my QUESTION:

What part of the Google index is actual?
(The other part being NO LONGER actual).

<*@*.*> wrote

As long as I understand, a page removed
from a website, or deeply edited,
can stay monthes, even years in the
Google cache. If this is the case, it
means that part of Google cache is
not up to date.

Same for Google index. An information
(say: private datas about one person)
that is removed from a website AND
from Google cache stays in the Google
index for a long time (some say: for
monthes, even years). If this is the
case, it means that part of Google
index is not actual.

Here is my QUESTION:

What part of the Google index is actual?
(The other part being NO LONGER actual).

If you had personal stuff shown up in a site and had it removed you need to
go to Google and remove this personal data for sure. Only Google can help
you. Asking these questions here have not helped you, as have you asked the
webmaster to file the removal of the cached page? Just waiting around can
take up more time.

Stacey

If you had personal stuff shown up in
a site and had it removed you need to
go to Google and remove this personal
data for sure. Only Google can help
you. Asking these questions here have
not helped you, as have you asked the
webmaster to file the removal of the
cached page? Just waiting around can
take up more time.

As long as I understand -- If you are a
webmaster, you can put some code in
your pages and Google will NOT index
them (opt-out solution), or if Google has
already indexed the pages, you can put
some code on your website and require
that Google re-indexes the pages.
HOWEVER, if your are not the webmaster
you cannot require such a thing from Google.
IN OTHER WORDS: if you are the average
internet user, you can require the webmaster
to remove some private datas from theit pages
(in my experience, if you ask politely, most
webmasters agree to do so). But you cannot
require Google to remove from its index
and/or from it's cache your personnal datas
(that are no longer on the original web site).
OR DID I MISS SOMETHING HERE?
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Anyhow, thanks for your answer.

<*@*.*> wrote

If you had personal stuff shown up in
a site and had it removed you need to
go to Google and remove this personal
data for sure. Only Google can help
you. Asking these questions here have
not helped you, as have you asked the
webmaster to file the removal of the
cached page? Just waiting around can
take up more time.

As long as I understand -- If you are a
webmaster, you can put some code in
your pages and Google will NOT index
them (opt-out solution), or if Google has
already indexed the pages, you can put
some code on your website and require
that Google re-indexes the pages.
HOWEVER, if your are not the webmaster
you cannot require such a thing from Google.
IN OTHER WORDS: if you are the average
internet user, you can require the webmaster
to remove some private datas from theit pages
(in my experience, if you ask politely, most
webmasters agree to do so). But you cannot
require Google to remove from its index
and/or from it's cache your personnal datas
(that are no longer on the original web site).
OR DID I MISS SOMETHING HERE?
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Anyhow, thanks for your answer.

If you have private stuff that needs to be removed Google will remove it.
You can ask them. http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html From their home
page you can get to there pretty easy. Where it states contact us.....
http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/index.html. Pretty simple to find. Now
since you know about some code once a page is indexed it will be in the
index. Meta tags don't really work to tell you the truth. I have a page
indexed with the no index. A robots.txt is the way to do it. If you have
asked the webmaster to file the Google removal then just wait and see. I am
sure that if this stuff is really private information as you are leading it
to believe then contact Google.

Stacey

http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/index.html

--> OK. I went there. There are three
options, when you contact them.
The options are:
* I have a general question about Google
* I'm a webmaster inquiring about my website
* I don't want a response, I'd just like to say...
I CHOOSE THE THIRD OPTION.
I just hope they will NOT consider is as mere
petty talk - and they will expedite the removal
of the cached copies, now that the webmaster
has removed the pages from the site.

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Wait and see.
One more time, thanks.

Try creating, if you haven't already a robot.txt file that can prevent
access to pages that you can define. Here is the code that will do it
for you.

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: yoururl.htm

On 1 Dec 2005 03:42:31 -0800, "Antigravity"
<webmaster (AT) antigravitywebdesign (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Try creating, if you haven't already a robot.txt file that can prevent
access to pages that you can define. Here is the code that will do it
for you.

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow: yoururl.htm

Would work except that:
1. this person is not the webmaster so they can't set up a robots.txt
file for the site
2. page is already cached so the person needs the webmaster of the
site to contact Google to have it removed from the cached data.

Only that the person doesn't seem to understand #2 and keeps asking
how long the page will remain in the cache - which is up in the air on
how long that may be as some others have shared varying amounts of
time based on their past experience.

The person wants the pages, of a site they have no control over (not
the webmaster), removed from Google's cache - and they have been
supplied the answers for that ... which falls on the actual webmaster
to do.

Carol