Google - Caching

Stopping Google from have a cache

[chris_f]

Hi All,

I am thinking of stopping Google from caching my site by using the following meta tag:

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

Will this work?
Would you advise it?

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My reasons for removing the cache:
I have a site which is on the web at the minute. A competitor (very illiterate with the internet) has started copying my ideas which is making his site more competitive. I know which IP addresses his company uses for internet access (as they have a static IP address).

At the minute if a spider access my site it gets the pure content and no design, however, if a user enters the site they get the full glory of the site. I am not doing any alteration of the content for the spiders just the design (so it shouldn't be frowned apon). If my competitor views my site they get a page which looks like a 404. However, I want Google to stop caching my site so that they can't view my ideas through the cache.

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Chris.

[Flippi]

Like in the description of Google:
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">

Works fine.

[Unversed]

Of course there are times (like now, when my site is enjoying "unplanned downtime") when it's good that Google cached your pages.