Google caching question

[Icepick]

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]

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]

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]

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

You can also request that google remove it.

 

[Icepick]

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. 🙂

 

[HamburgerBoy]

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. 🙂

For your website? Once a year.

 

[BeauJangles]

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]

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!