Google Search Engine Ignore Competition Sites Eliminate Older Materials?
"I'll pass this on," wrote Danny Sullivan from Google, "but your screenshots aren't clear. In one, you show that an outdated cache removal happened. That's not the same as a page actually being removed. The tool does allow for a cache / snippet to be removed if it's no longer reflecting live content. And if you are finding a word that no longer appears, yes, that could trigger a cache / snippet removal in that case.
Anyone could also include any thru the tool for webpages which demonstrate substantial changes made from the original story. It shouldn't erase the page and de-index the page entirely, according to Google's help page, which states that if the page is still online but updated, it will remove the snippet and cached result from Search results, but both will be refreshed the next time Google's crawler visits the website.
Hearst Newspapers employee Brandon Mercer wrote within the Google Search Console support newsgroups that individuals are utilizing Google's "remove outdated content tool" to eliminate rival pages, and he claimed it is effective. Danny Sullivan from Google answered, even though he doesn't appear to be sure that it actually works. The program was introduced in January 2020 and updated a few months afterwards.
Then he continued, "this is taking place to many publishers. There is NO approval process on the webmaster side. I just verified it again yesterday. You can remove ANY URL from indexing, unilaterally. For my colleague, she didn't even have to add any outdated words. She just submits it, and it de-indexes. This is a major bug."
Danny continued, "For actually removing a page, the tool really shouldn't process a removal if the page itself is still be reported as live and not blocked to us. In the cases you've tested, you're finding that the page is indeed still live and there aren't any blocking mechanisms on it like a noindex attribute?"
We'll investigate this further, Danny said yesterday. "The tool is designed to remove links that are no longer live or snippets that are no longer displaying live information.
I have no idea what is happening, have any of you tried it?
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