can i delete a DevNetwork Forums post?

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Mijanur
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can i delete a DevNetwork Forums post?

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Hi i am wondering if i can delete a post i posted few weeks ago.

the whole point of me posting a thread was to hide a link from google, but i had copy and pasted the link that i wanted to hide on the last post DevNetwork Forums to show as an example of what im trying to hide. now when i do a search on google, the hidden link comes up through DevNetwork Forums...:-(

any chance of over coming this problem?

many thanx
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Give me the line link the thread in question.

You can edit your own posts though
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Post by superdezign »

Once Google has indexed it, it's pretty much there for good. I think there's a way to request that it be removed, but you have to prove to Google that you own the indexed page.
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I guess you edited it yourself?!
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hey jaybird thanx, you mentioned so i had a look and found it thanx to you.

would u know how long google would keep the old thread in their database? how oftern do the update this?

kind regards
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I think they keep it there forever, but it's rumored that after 6 months, they get rid of it (if they can't find it again) and assume it's dead.
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superdezign wrote:I think they keep it there forever, but it's rumored that after 6 months, they get rid of it (if they can't find it again) and assume it's dead.
I always thought google's philosophy was that nothing should ever be deleted. I reckon they just don't show it in search results once the page looks to be dead.
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Just goes to show you that if you don't want the world to find it on Google, don't post it anywhere. Ever.
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