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As of February 2009, Wikipedia allows all search engines to cache its results. That is, if a search engine like Google happens to crawl a page, any inappropriate or bad content, including WP:BLP violations, may be propagated out onto the Internet for an indeterminate amount of time.
In SeaMonkey and later versions of Netscape, choose Edit Preferences…, expand the "Advanced" section and choose "Cache". Click on the "Clear Cache" button. If you would like to keep your data in your cache and test Wikipedia with an empty cache, you can use Private Browsing mode. To disable caching in Firefox (not recommended for most users):
Bypass your cache — Simple instructions In most Windows and Linux browsers: Hold down Ctrl and press F5. In Apple Safari: Hold down ⇧ Shift and click the Reload toolbar button. In Chrome and Firefox for Mac: Hold down both ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift and press R. See full instructions below
Google and other search engines will often cache the pages they provide in their search result, to avoid having to look up these pages multiple times and thus slow down searches. For most websites, this doesn't cause any particular problem, as many websites will remain (mostly) unchanged between googlebot runs.
The search engine might make the copy accessible to users. Web crawlers that obey restrictions in robots.txt [2] or meta tags [3] by the site webmaster may not make a cached copy available to search engine users if instructed not to. Search engine cache can be used for crime investigation, [4] legal proceedings [5] and journalism. [6] [1 ...
Purge is a function that is sometimes necessary to use to update a wiki page whenever template- or subpage-transclusions are involved. Purging clears the page's server cache, and the page is rebuilt.