I work for a public school and someone has edited the school site on Wikipedia. It was very disgraceful information about a certain person. Although the information was removed, it still shows up on Yahoo and Google when you do a search for the school. However, if you go to Wikipedia's site it shows the corrected information. Why does it still show the vandalized information when you do the search and then click the link. Is there anything I can do?
2007-02-04 02:50:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Actually I think the problem remains visible because the search engines like Yahoo! or Google are just not able to update their data very often. That is why they are showing the old (stale) information - it isn't malicious it just takes time to index every changed page on the Web... Be patient and the problem should resolve itself.
2007-02-04 03:06:27 · answer #1 · answered by Michael Darnell 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo and Google don't check their information for correctness. You should contact them and make them aware of the fact that their information is incorrect and that you would appreciate their removing same or correcting it since it is cause embarrassment to your institution etc.
2007-02-04 02:59:34 · answer #2 · answered by Dale 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theres nothing you can do as the search engines will cache sites in order to get the results in a faster way, you just have to wait it out, they usualy refresh the info on a monthly bases and then the old info will go away, however if the information is part of the same algorithum as other informatin still out there the reference to the info may never go away.
2007-02-04 02:56:07 · answer #3 · answered by Helping Since 1969 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is because Yahoo and Google havent reindex the webpages . Requesting to Yahoo and Google to re index the webpages will correct the problem.
2007-02-04 02:56:56 · answer #4 · answered by Dhruv A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋