Re: Google Cached Images

John Ingham wrote:
> Web and Micro-netters,
>
> I removed an image file from our servers but it is still cached by
> Google; I have been asked to do what I can to see that the image is
> removed / de-linked from there as well. Any information / linkage that
> will shorten my learning curve would be appreciated.

Google's page on removing cached content is:
<http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35306>

My experience is that it's notoriously difficult to get things removed. For
an image file, you might do better replacing it with a blank or single-pixel
image, so Google picks up the change in its next pass.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holub_at_LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.edu/lscr/>
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