Open Question Wednesday #23

[julieandrews]

I'm lying in bed thinking, instead of sleeping. Grr. And I got to wondering. So since it also happens to be Wednesday, maybe you all can stop me from wondering. :)

Do online publications, such as e-magazines, generally allow robots to crawl their site and index and cache their stories?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

All my online stories can be found by googling, so I suppose they must. Unless they're paid pubs using PDF, I guess.

[julieandrews.livejournal.com]

Is this Anonymous Keyan? :)

I was just wondering if the stories would hang around in Google caches and the Wayback Machine, etc even after they were taken down from the site. Or even after the publication folded.

[(Anonymous)]

It was, sorry, forgot to sign it.

I think (recalling an AbsoluteWrite glitch when stuff that was supposed to be protected, wasn't) it takes about 2 weeks or so to clean out. I don't know if that's absolute or statistical, though.

- Keyan