Google image hits after I've removed the photo

charlotte49ers

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I was getting a lot of google image hits on a celebrity picture I had on my blog (from a novel casting post awhile ago). It was really messing up my stats, so I took the photo off yesterday afternoon, but I'm still getting a bunch of hits for it. Is this one of those things that just takes some time to get off of google's search or what? It's driving me bananas!
 

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Google caches stuff for some time. Things don't always disappear forever, and the buffering effect can be of benefit to searchers. Once in a while it's a temporary PITA. It will eventually "forget".
 

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Also, check the code to be sure the reference to Paris H or whomever isn't in your metadata.