by Pam
I put up a post that was full of some half baked ideas and theories. The post was up overnight and then I took it down. But the web crawlers or whatever you call it that scrape and mine data from a website that then stores it in some cache that leaves it on the Internet forever had already done its thing. I deleted the text of the post and replaced it with a single sentence. If you searched for any text from the original post the Google search engine would find the post but when you clicked on it to open it, it was the sentence post and not the original post. It was an experiment to do it that way and appeared to have worked.
But then the post's suggestive title drew comments anyway with some interesting but incorrect guesses as to the reasons behind the removal. To complete the experiment, I took the replacement sentence post down the next day by "unpublishing" the post. So, is the original or replacement post still cached on the internet forever? You tell me. Can you find a copy of the original or replacement post on the Internet anywhere?
Yes. It's in the Google cache.
ReplyDeleteGood to know. I wonder how long it stays there? At work with the new patent laws coming into effect we wondered what constituted "publication" and an idea was tossed around of posting something online and then taking it down a short time later and calling public information.
ReplyDeleteNo big deal that my original post is cached. I'll have to keep track of what happens over time.
Only a matter of time before it's on Sailing Anarchy. The cat is out of the bag.
ReplyDeleteI've already spoken with SA.
DeleteThat Margaret Gerling blog is so random. There's nothing original, it's all republished stuff borrowed from all over the web and there's no particular theme to it. It's almost like a bot is in control there!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely random and definitely a bot of some type. They don't have any followers and I imagine their traffic is rather low. Hope you don't mind but I removed your comment that has the link. No reason to make it easy ... and no reason to send them traffic.
DeleteI love the labels that have been put on your post by Ms Gerling. "16 and pregnant"', "mies van der rohe" and "pink slime" for example.
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting is if you click on the label to see other posts classified similarly. The label is actually a link that leaves the site. Very much like all the random spam comments we get of 'love this post ... look at mine ... link to cigarette ad.' It seems like a lose lose way of doing things especially since the blogger filter snags all of those types of things and the comments never make it past the filter. Why keep doing it?
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