Google your journal

Gordon

I'm not sure if anyone that has a journal realises this. I guess now that Google is fairly integrated into boards this means that a greater scope of people have potential access to your journal. For instance, a friend of mine apparently typed "Wizlow's world" into Google and the second hit was my journal. It's something I don't tell people that I have - an online journal, so it was a surprise for her. (of course theres a funny story that carries on from this but I won't digress )

So I guess this is just a note to people that have journals, and people that don't have journals I guess. I noticed that if one does a google search for text from a post on boards - it won't give any results. But if one searches for text from a journal entry on boards - it will give google results. Is this a new thing or has it been this way since the journals were set up?

(oh, comments on journal entries aren't googled it seems)

Roller Toaster

Seems to give results for threads for me although I don't know why it's chosen that particular post...
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22roller+toaster%22&meta=cr%3DcountryIE

Barry Aldwell

Google: like Microsoft is hyped up to be, except it actually can change your day-to-day life, and suppress information

Oriel

I think it mainly comes down to the amount of time in which it takes google to register pages into its search field. I had a personal website and I was coming up 3rd in a search, but only after about 4 to 6 months of being online.

Gordon, how long has the journal been online, and how old was the text from boards.ie?

S.

Gordon

Ah that's what it is Sinecure.

It seems to be about 2 weeks. The journal is 2 or 3 weeks old and any newer journals are not included.

I'm going potty.
(the confused sense of the word potty)

Sorry, my mistake.

Bard

I was looking for a Fast Show scripts site and I put "sminki pinki pussi" into Google (link) and the only link I got was to my journal.

Which was nice.

Gordon

GREAT!