so, What do you think abt. web crawler.(e-survilance)

I've have frens that have posted some PERSONAL stuffs on the internet; But few years later ( when he grows a bit older and understands the meaning of privacy... and how such things might be misused so easily) he asks the admin of such sites after googling for himself to completely remove his info. But even a year and half after that he finds his personal info. still floating on googles cache!!!

situation:
* Person who owns the info. don't want it to be published on the internet.

* Even the owner of the site respects that and removes the info.

* BUT search engines index it, even scary CACHE the whole thing and LET everyone on the internet willing to get the info. VIEW it!!!

I know google (just an example) has two ways to remove such info:
http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller
and another: http://www.google.com.np/webmasters/remove.html

We appreciate that... but it isn't a most effective way! (is it?)

Internet is no longer those days when someone (say: a company/individual) posts some info. in his website and everyone reads it. So giving the rights/decision only in the hand of webservers for using robots.txt isn't enough. I think its time for search engines to let the users have control of the information they post on the internet. Say like, maybe*
say........if a user posts/writes something between the

|robots.vwxyz| ...and... |/robots.vwxyz|

where vwxyz is any random numbers the user chooses.......... ANY

content within that TAG won't be indexed!I think its time and moral duty of search engine to easily let users choose to remove their info from their websites. I don't want to see

my frends(NOR they) being indexed by some computer system from their birth to their death.
regards,
-bipin

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