[WEB4LIB] RE: Seattletimes.com: Public to taste life without its libraries

[gary]

Nancy:
Google captures a copy of each page* it finds during its crawl and makes the page 
available via the Google Cache. If a web site owner doesn't want a page(s) 
cached, The Washington Post as an example, Google needs to be contacted or the 
proper file needs to be placed on the server. 

At the moment, Google has approx. 1300 pages from the www.spl.org domain in its 
database.  Google Search: <inurl:www.spl.org -inurl:uk). 

I browsed through a few pages of results and all had cached versions available. 

So, will SPL ask them to purge the cache? It's a good question.
 
Another question, if a web searcher were to access the page with links 
to remotely accessible subscription databases via SPL 
(http://www.spl.org/selectedsites/subscriptions.html), will these links be 
disconnected?


Finally, other search engines are caching pages. The very new Gigablast also 
caches content. http://www.gigablast.com
Example of Cache:
http://www.gigablast.com/cgi/0.cgi?n=10&ns=2&sd=0&q=%22seattle+public+library%22


*Google crawls and caches the first 110k of a web pages. If a page is longer, 
it's truncated at the 110 mark.  According to Greg Notess, Google truncates most 
pdf files at "about 120k". http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/new.shtml#may18  

cheers,
gary















Quoting Nancy Sosna Bohm <plum at ulink.net>:

> Without knowing off-hand anything about the programming behind Google's
> 'cached page' feature, I am now wondering if the Seattle public libraries'
> pages would be viewable via Google, and if so, if Google would be considered
> in such an instance to be comparable to a 'scab worker' during a strike?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>
> >...it is imperative
> > that the Web site be "shuttered."  Anything less is misleading and
> > unfair to both your staff and your community....
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jwang_94121 at yahoo.com>
> > ...When Seattle public libraries go dark for a week next Monday, the
> closure will have far more chilling implications than a late-summer
> "furlough" might on the surface suggest. For a variety of...
> >
> > Full story:
> http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?s
> lug=paul19&date=20020819
> > ...
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
gary at freepint.com

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