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Over four months ago I bought up the topic about how Yahoo was misunderstanding cgi links as duplicate sites. One of my sites was was completely removed from Yahoo over 400 pages gone. The problem was for me that the site I built with many others was a excellent resource. Many sites linked to it for its content. Several directories linked using cgi redirecting links. The problem was Yahoo didn't understand these links and interrupted them as a mirror site and basically dropped my site as if it were duplicate content.
In order to fix the problem I contacted the directories and got them to remove the links, which they did. I then submitted their page to show my link was dropped. I also changed my index and internal pages in order to make the content different from Yahoo's cache of the cgi link version of my site. I submitted my site to Yahoo. I even wrote to Yahoo to tell them about the problem and they replied to me they would look into it.
This was all done over three months ago yet still today Yahoo has the cgi link cached and my site is dead.
So how long does a page stay in Yahoo's cache? How long does it take for Yahoo to realize that a link is dead? How can I get Yahoo to clear this cached result and reinstate my site?
I would have thought this would be the way the dup filter would work too, but my site shows differently. It's sub-pages are gone and only the one cgi link caused the complete down fall of the site.
I thought that Yahoo's cache was still really the Google cache; I presume their contract has not yet expired and that they're still able to use it.
Their verbage still says "as our search engine partner crawled the web...". Perhaps Yahoo's "partner" is Ink?
Now that I check, the resulting IP when you click for the cache *is* registered to Hotjobs, so maybe it's *not* Google...
I always felt the cache came from inktomi. But it still doesn't explain why the cache hasn't been updated and doesn't explain why Yahoo has the redirecting link problem. I wish there was a way to get Yahoo to clear its cache and re-index the real site.
