If it is in the "google cache" it's not likely to disappear at all, since google is notorious for never deleting *anything*. Indeed, this is an argument that some people use against gmail. If the falsified page no longer exists on MySpace my thought is you are "relatively safe" since who is going to search google for a deleted false page about you, except for you yourself. Furthermore, anyone who does such a search must be doing it for some weird kicks, and not in any way trying to incriminate you for anything (since the actual MySpace page was deleted).

I suppose you could try and contact google and see if they are willing to delete their cached version of the false MySpace page. Please bear in mind that if the kids (guessing it was kids who did this) find out how upset you are by all this, they will likely try this kind of stunt again. As you obviously learned, it's a lot easier to put up a phony MySpace page than it is to get it taken down. And MySpace adds a quarter of a million profiles *every day*.

Maria,

We would need some more detail to better understand what you mean by the fake page being in the "cache." What cache do you mean. Is it the local cache on your browser (if so you just delete the history), a cache on Google or some other search engine (that requires cooperation from the search engine) or a cache of some kind on MySpace (I'm not aware of MySpace caching deleted pages but if that appears to be the problem we can check on it). In other words, we need a bit more detail.

Best,

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Larry
Co-director
BlogSafety.com

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Edited by Larry at 08/31/2006 9:44 AM