Sindice doesn't reindex certain URLs

[Ruben]

Dear all,

In an attempt to remove some old pages that contained outdated metadata,
I've tried to make them return a 404 or 410 and then pinging Sindice with them.
Since that didn't work, I decided to fill them with some completely unrelated RDF,
hoping that this would be picked up instead of the old contents.

However, reindexing doesn't work for the following pages;
they maintain their old contents from 2011-05-16.
Maybe their unusual URLs have something to do with that?
(They seem to be an artefact from faulty redirections.)

• http://ruben.3click.be/Default.aspx?umbPage=links& (cache – live)
  
• http://ruben.3click.be/Default.aspx?umbPage=contact&amp (cache – live)
  
• http://ruben.3click.be/Default.aspx?umbPage=contact& (cache – live)
  

Note in particular how the Sindice search results create extra "amp;"s in the URL.

I think that the ampersand is HTML-escaped instead of URL-escaped, giving rise to the inception-esque URLs.

It would be great if you could help me reindex those URLs,

or even better complete remove them :-)

Best,

Ruben

[Giovanni Tummarello]

Hi Ruben,
the 404+ping should really work, we'll look into this as soon as the
person that knows how to follow the flow is back from the summer
leave.
sorry for the inconvenience

Gio

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[Ruben]

Dear Gio,

Thanks. I’ve turned them into 404s now.

Basically, everything from domain ruben.3click.be will now return 404,
so anything that remains in the index indicates that something went wrong.

Best,

Ruben

[Giovanni Tummarello]

+ ping :)
gotta ping them
Gio

[Ruben]

I do… I’ve pinged them almost daily the past couple of months ;-)
That’s exactly the problem: pinging doesn’t help (whether I return 200/301/404/410).

Ruben

[Ruben]

Hi Gio,

the 404+ping should really work, we'll look into this as soon as the
person that knows how to follow the flow is back from the summer leave.

Any update on this?

Thanks,

Ruben