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can i delete a DevNetwork Forums post?

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:32 am
by Mijanur
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

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:33 am
by JayBird
Give me the line link the thread in question.

You can edit your own posts though

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:34 am
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.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:40 am
by Mijanur

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:46 am
by JayBird
I guess you edited it yourself?!

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:50 am
by Mijanur
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

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:18 am
by superdezign
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.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:26 am
by Chris Corbyn
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.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:13 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Just goes to show you that if you don't want the world to find it on Google, don't post it anywhere. Ever.