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So much for Google's Privacy Settings

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39 pointspavel_lishin12 comments

Google Search seems to keep things in its index conservatively, hoping that 404 and other errors are transient.

I'm guessing the Google+ profile didn't appear in "featured links" (don't know the proper name for the special links at the top) anymore, only in the organic search results.

plus.google.com is probably crawled just like the rest of the Web by Google Search (as it should be), and there is no special treatment for it, so having an outdated result in page 3 for a few weeks after the profile has been changed is likely standard behavior.

The post confirms this since the search result snippet image gives more info that was available when clicking through to the private profile.

Author didn't specify how long he waited. I'm guessing not long at all. It would be reasonable to give Google time to update it's index.

There was a week between the deletion of my Google+ account and changing my profile to not visible in search and the date of this posting. Seems like enough time for Google to update an index of their own pages especially since they are capable of updating the index of my web site multiple times per day.

The original complaint doesn't have any evidence I can see, the cached version is unavailable, the preview is unavailable and the actual link itself 404's.

To actually delist a page from Google can take a little longer than a week, we renamed one of our pages recently without 301 redirecting and it took a pretty long time for it to be removed from search.

If you look at Google's cached result, the page is blank but if you view source the profile's all there.

If I search for 'John Graham-Cumming google plus' the result is still listed, but leads to a 404. Looks like it takes them a while to reindex these even when they're deleted.

I think it takes a while for Google to remove a page from it's index, if one exists then suddenly 404's in my experience it takes a little longer than a week to remove it from Googles index.

Yeah the problem with changing a business's strategy and offering an integrated service is that, somewhat unsurprisingly, people expect it to be integrated.

Clearly, this isn't the case.

I just searched for "John Graham-Cumming" and the G+ profile doesn't show up.

First page of results:

jgc.org

blog.jgc.org

blog.jgc.org/2012/01/gaga-2.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham-Cumming

twitter.com/jgrahamc

www.guardian.co.uk/profile/john-graham-cumming

radar.oreilly.com/jgc/

www.geekatlas.com/profile/JohnGrahamCumming

www.crunchbase.com › People

https://theturingcentenary.wordpress.com/.../john-graham-cum...

That would be because he mentions deleting it:

   It looks like telling Google to not show my profile in search results was useless, the only option was to *totally delete it which I have now done*.

It shows up as a normal Google result. Did anyone measure the delays for getting delisted from the "search plus your world" results?

You probably need to wait until they update the index.

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