A recent search has caused an 'HORAY!' and an 'OMG!' in equal measure. Now i wonder if the deletion of details on web sites are as secure as they first appear to be.

 

So, allow me to waffle out an explaination.

 

Poking around for a few of old friends i entered the names into a search engine. Woo Hoo two of the three bounced back on the socail networking site. The third i found confusing, followed by frustration then to a realisation that something just isnt right.

 

In the search engine several results returned from a public journal site but clicking on the link too me to a page stating that the account had been deleted by the user and purged. But how?.... how can i see the first few lines of the blogs yet they are not on the site? confusing huh? Have search engines evolved to a place where nothing is ever deleted and exposed with a simple search?

 

Im sure the most creative web users will be able to view the page in its entirity but how can this happen and how safe are we?

i must add that i didnt use the cached link.

A recent search has caused an 'HORAY!' and an 'OMG!' in equal measure. Now i wonder if the deletion of details on web sites are as secure as they first appear to be.

 

So, allow me to waffle out an explaination.

 

Poking around for a few of old friends i entered the names into a search engine. Woo Hoo two of the three bounced back on the socail networking site. The third i found confusing, followed by frustration then to a realisation that something just isnt right.

 

In the search engine several results returned from a public journal site but clicking on the link too me to a page stating that the account had been deleted by the user and purged. But how?.... how can i see the first few lines of the blogs yet they are not on the site? confusing huh? Have search engines evolved to a place where nothing is ever deleted and exposed with a simple search?

 

Im sure the most creative web users will be able to view the page in its entirity but how can this happen and how safe are we?

i must add that i didnt use the cached link.

 

Search engines such as google store cache images of the site, makes it more resource full not to keep searching a site every time someone searches for a subject. The cache image will be reset accordingly by default or what the webmaster has set too.

 

all you are doing is searching through cache images on google and then being directed to the appropriate page. If the page isn't no longer there then it isn't there, but if you expect that google is constantly looking at your site for updates and deletions then it just really isn't viable in a resourcefulness sense.

 

Chow