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Removing an Old Page That Now Redirects to a 404 Error Page

getting an academic paper removed from google cache despite 404 error page

         

geckofuel

1:06 pm on Jun 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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OK. Here's the deal. My academic website was displaying a pre-print paper whic had to be removed when the journal finally got published. However, my site is set up to redirect bad URLS to a 404 Error page. When I go to the Google "urgent removal" page, it still thinks that the page exists because my webserver thows up the 404 Error page.

This is actually a relatively urgent matter, because anyone can go out on the web right now and view a cached version of this academic paper that has been embargoed by a respected journal.

Brett_Tabke

10:23 pm on Jun 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Only thing to do is contact google via the email adrs on the removal page.