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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Right, but they only need to store the index data once the page/site has been indexed. There is no need for them to keep the whole page in their cache... which the do if you have ever view google cached pages.
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I understand that, but Taylor's argument is that there should be no caching of his copyrighted material (or profitting from it via advertisements) at all. He's saying he wants zero caching, not just changing how long a cache is kept for. To me, it sounds like he's saying "no caching of copyrighted content, ever" which I was pointing out means "no search engines".
Also, as acidzebra pointed out, not retaining any cache means that you completely lose the excerpt/context and search results just become a list of URLs with no way of knowing any more details without going to every link.
Yes, as you pointed out, there are already ways to get google to not retain a cache as well as to not index your site at all. Taylor doesn't seem to be happy with those solutions though.