Postal Letter

Will this internet item last forever?

When doing a search, the results appear with a link called "cached " such as this: Yahoo! Mail: The best web-based email!Get free web-based email from Yahoo! Access email from anywhere, enjoy unlimited storage space, and feel secure with award-winning spam protection. mail.yahoo.com/ - 26k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this Not where it says cached above next to the 26K. When you click Cached, it shows the page as it existed in the past. I recently had personal info posted on someone's webpage. They have finally at my insistence taken it down. However, when I do my name search, the item still appears in the search results in the "cached" page. Even though the page-owner removed it, will the old version remain in "cached" forever?

Public Comments

1. probably not it will eventually get overwritten
2. Not on search engines. They will eventually update their caches. However, if the page has been cached on http://archive.org they won't erase it.
3. Probably not, but in this case, you should contact the company, and REQUIRE them to put the following code in ther page: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> Also contact Google and ask them to remove that cached version. Also, make sure to check The way back archive as well. http://www.archive.org. If you are having trouble, you might consider getting a lawyer to help you if the information is sensitive enough. Good luck.
4. most likly yes there are just to many servers that cach pages so even if 1 got rid of it another will still have it