As Yahoo starts to eliminate the metapilot.net pages from display in the search results, the first thing it does, at least in this case, is remove the link to the cached version of the page from the results. As of this date, the number of cached metapilot.net pages is down to three (two of them from the most current version of the which went up two weeks ago, one from the previous version of the site). The site:domain search still shows 15 total pages indexed, however.For those who aren’t familiar with the difference between “indexed” and “cached”, it is really only a matter of the amount of information the search engine makes available to us in the search query result. A page that has been “indexed” is one that has been crawled by that search engine, has it’s information stored in that search engine’s database(s) and can be made to show up in a search results page by performing a search for information specifically relevant to that page.
An indexed page that is in good standing with a search engine shows up in its search results with the title of the page, a snippet of the query-relevant content from that page, and, at least in the case of Yahoo, Google, and MSN, a link to cached version of the page. The “cached” version is an exact copy of the web page as it would have appeared in a browser at the time it was crawled by the search engine.
Often, the lack of a link to the cached version indicates that the engine has some sort of problem with your site or that some sort of change is taking place within the search engine regarding the site’s result listing.
Click on the image below and you can see that some
of the results have a link to the cached page and some do not.
