Google caching question

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Icepick

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How long does it take for web pages to be cleared out of Google's search engine cache? I deleted something from a website this morning and I noticed that it still shows up in Google's search engine although the link to this item goes nowhere.
 

drebo

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Just a guess, but I'd imagine it'll be there until the spider crawls your website again. Even then, I'm not sure it'd go away.

It's certainly not instant.
 

davmat787

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Isn't this partially the point of Google caching? To make it possible to view web pages that are no longer available? I know I have used this feature a couple of times.
 

BeauJangles

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When it gets crawled again, it'll be removed.

You can also request that google remove it.
 

Icepick

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Cool. Thanks for the answer! Now the million dollar question is "what is Google's crawl frequency?" A free cookie to anyone who knows this. :)
 

BeauJangles

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Cool. Thanks for the answer! Now the million dollar question is "what is Google's crawl frequency?" A free cookie to anyone who knows this. :)

Depends on how much traffic you have and if you do anything to attract Google's attention. You can get most websites crawled / recrawled within 24 hours. If you're really good, you can get it crawled within minutes.
 

Icepick

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Depends on how much traffic you have and if you do anything to attract Google's attention. You can get most websites crawled / recrawled within 24 hours. If you're really good, you can get it crawled within minutes.

The "website" I deleted it from is Facebook. Based on your response I'd expect it to be crawled quite frequently since Facebook gets millions of hits per day. Thanks!
 
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