But that’s a 3-5 day promised turnaround. In real life, I’d expect at least 24 hours for it to happen. This got yanked in less than 8 hours.

So my guess is that while this was for “training purposes,” someone at Google’s outside firm got someone at Google to pull it without a formal request being filed, and that kind of indicates that Google is indeed really sensitive to the document.

FYI, Microsoft still has it :)
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache......1,51ab7a40

Also note that while the cached copy is pulled, Google does still report a link to it:

http://www.google.com/search?h.....tnG=Search

That’s kind of weird. See, if you did file a request, it would be to remove the page itself – which would show no listing at all. Sometimes people file a request to remove only the cached version – they’ve changed the page, and still want the page listed, but for whatever reason, they don’t want the old version still up or don’t want a cached copy to be available at all.

I can’t recall any case where a listing stays up for a dead page but only the cached copy gets removed.

cheers,

danny

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Danny Sullivan

Editor-In-Chief, Search Engine Land