mcavic - 7:35 pm on May 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

1. DROP the freaking pages deleted 2 years ago, and index the current ones

Agreed. As a user I've found supplemental cached results useful, but as a site owner, I'm not sure that I want Google retaining them.

And what about Gmail? I don't know how many users they have, but it seems to have turned into a free file storage service.