Meta "Expires" tag question

 > The tag is telling a search engine that if it wants to put your page
 > into a database, it will only be alive for that long. It doesn't
 > actually _do_ anything to the page.
 >
 > If the page only lives until that date, I would assume that the images
 > on it would be the same.
 >
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 > Don McCahill
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Don,

Will Google then think your page is going to disappear and thus yank
it ranking-wise? I want to use the expiration tag to tell people's
browsers to refresh - I don't know how to help my users with their
login difficulties otherwise. But I can't do it if it's going to kill
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  >
  >The tag is telling a search engine that if it wants to put your page
  >into a database, it will only be alive for that long. It doesn't
  >actually _do_ anything to the page.
  >
  >If the page only lives until that date, I would assume that the images
  >on it would be the same.
  >
  >---
  >Don McCahill
  >www.whilo.com
Does it mean, then, that the search engine will remove the site from its
database after that date?
I code by hand but I notice that many (all???) of the websites-out-of-a-box
stick this tag in by default.
I've never understood the use of such a tag, and never bothered to
investigate. What is the point of it? I'm confused. (Note: I'm not
"confused of tunbridge wells" - he's a totally different fella.)

This post did not necessarily reflect my opinions. So there.

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