Google Cached Images

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.



YT

John Ingham
Web - Application Development / Server Management
BG17 Giauque
UCB College of Chemistry

Phone: 510-642-2142
Fax: 510-643-6178
Moble: 925-788-6616
Email: jeinghamberkeley.edu



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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_holubLS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.e
du/lscr/>

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