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Gentle Giant Blog Comments Still on Google
— July 18, 2007 Leave a Comment
On Monday, Gentle Giant announced on their blog that they were removing the ability for members to comment on their blog. Not only did Gentle Giant disable commenting on their blog, they also removed all previous comments that had been left on the blog. Well, this didn’t stop me.
If you are familiar with how the search engine Google works, you know that once Google visits a site it indexes all of their content and puts it in a cached version of the site that is available to the public. If you search for a site, you can find the cached version of it.
So guess what I did? I searched Google for the Gentle Giant blog and found all their cached pages from the blog. And you know that the cached version still has comments on it. So what did I do? I saved all the cached versions of the pages to my hard drive. So Gentle Giant may have deleted their comments but they are still out there. Now I have a copy, and so can you, if you are so inclined and act quickly. In fact, I will save you the time by posting the link that I used to find them.
These pages are still up as of this writing, but soon they will be gone. Once Google revisits those pages, it will reindex them as they are and they will be gone from the Google cache. In fact, this has already happened on one of the most recent posts. Also, none of the Premier Guild member only posts are available this way because they are not public where Google could see them. But other than that, they are all there, and I was able to save all of them except for the private ones and the one that was already gone.
Just so you know, I am planning on going through these posts to find the comments that were left by Gentle Giant employees. I will be doing a series of posts over time where I will post their comments for everyone to see and comment on them. So, Gentle Giant’s blog comments may be gone but they are not forgotten and will have a home here on the Unofficial Gentle Giant blog.
