Ledfish - 4:37 am on Oct 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

Maybe Google should just use a proper definition and call it the Google Hide-It tool.

You would think that if you request it to be removed and the page then is either redirected or excluded via robots.txt or even results in a 404. Google would leave it out of the index (main or supplemental) even after the 6 months expires.

Maybe Google Guy can or will shed some light on this situation especially at a time when people are trying to eliminate unintentional duplicates from Google so that the can get out a duplicate content penalty situation.

I have several hundred unintentional duplicates that are supplementals, I would at least like to be a good citizen and get them out of Google's supplemental index so that someone elses pages can use that space. I just don't feel right hogging up all that space in the supplemental index for pages on my site that no longer exist because the return a 404.

So is it the removal tool or the hide-it tool?

I once tried to call my website a cashcow, but wife wouldn't let me because she said she had undenyable proof that it didn't fit that definition.