jbgilbert - 5:12 pm on Aug 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

To make a long story short and not get too detailed...
About 60 days ago the hosting company for one of my clients make some mistakes, screwed up some re-direction, etc..., etc... -- leaving my client with two domains (A & B) each having the exact same content (only about 50 pages).

Well, Google and others crawled and caught many of the dups before we even knew it!

Since then (30 days ago) a permanent redirect was put in the .htaccess file of A to re-direct each page from A to the same page on B.

BUT,
- Google still shows all the A and B pages (although the B pages are indexed with title and description as they should be).

- Yahoo's index corrected itself fastest 14 days) for the internal pages, but it still shows the home page of A in it's index.

- MSN's index corrected itself quickly also (20 days) for the internal pages, but it also still shows the home page of A in it's index.

QUESTIONS:
1) How long will it take for Google to use the permanent re-direct and remove the site A pages from it's index?

2) Why does Yahoo & MSN remove all site A internal pages, but continue to leave (index) the site A index page?

Just so you have it, here is the .htaccess entry on site A:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
Redirect permanent / [site_B.com...]