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08/28/2005 Entry: "Yahoo cache"

Oh shit. I just noticed that Yahoo is caching pages like Google. However, unlike Google I can't find the Yahoo mechanism to remove pages from their cache. Yahoo? This is bad.

Does anyone know how to get pages out of the Yahoo cache? I would be much obliged for that information.

Edit 082905: Okay, here's what you do when you put a page up, use this tag right before the /head tag and the page won't be archived or searchable meta name="robots" content="noindex,noarchive,nofollow" (use those greater/lesser than brackets that won't work here around the tag, please [damn html sometimes]). Also, if you delete a page, the Yahoo robots will take it out of the cache in 30-60 days once the spiders report a 404 on it -- unlike Google, which will keep your page on their server forever or until you use their form to have it manually removed, which takes one or two weeks. As Laurel said, be careful what you put on the web.

By the way, Yahoo Help answered my email on this in less than 12 hours and answered a follow-up question in less than an hour. This... impressed me.

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