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LJ, blog searches, datamining

Sep 15, 2005 12:01

Google's new blog search is pretty nifty if you either like searching through people's weblogs or are an egotist who likes to kiboze. I'm both. Since I've always been a shameless self-promoter and I ping all available services, index myself in search engines etc. this is just peachy.

The way LJ did it was to provide a large-scale XML data feed of ( Read more... )

datamining, commerce, lj, privacy, search, google

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potatohead September 15 2005, 19:12:17 UTC

ahh, not cool. on the one hand, i don't have anything to hide and i've always been aware that i'm posting a JOURNAL on the INTERNET. on the other hand, I don't need my cousins finding my journal that easily.

sachmet September 15 2005, 19:14:04 UTC

You're right on the money. I unchecked that box recently, because I wanted to let my journal be spidered again. But I would expect that if I had left it checked, that nobody would be spidering my post, not even LJ itself.

Granted, robots.txt is only a suggestion. But most spiders are ethical enough to abide by it.

odradak September 15 2005, 19:15:59 UTC

I'd be a bit more pissy about it if my comments to journals that aren't protected weren't already searchable.

substitute September 15 2005, 19:21:40 UTC

Right, and that was the kind of point Rich was making; there isn't any privacy anyway. I think a lot of the flak they're going to get is from people who don't understand that, and it's going to be unreasonable and uninformed.

screed September 15 2005, 19:20:28 UTC

At least the UI is better than most blogs.

substitute September 15 2005, 19:22:54 UTC

The only real problem with LJ is their customer relations. Everything else I really like.

screed September 15 2005, 19:26:27 UTC

Customer relations? I thought the company was just a folder running 5 year old scripts. Like eBay.

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scromp September 15 2005, 19:43:31 UTC

Hmm, I've had [X] No robotz on since day 1 and my public posts do not appear in Google even today. Some references to them outside of my own journal, but nothing from my posts themselves.

sachmet September 15 2005, 19:48:13 UTC

Really?

scromp September 15 2005, 19:53:19 UTC

Hm, ok. I tried some really obviously unique searches and got nothing. Oh well, nevarmind. matrix ahoy!

rpkrajewski September 15 2005, 20:24:44 UTC

I think "No Robotz" should cover any kind of searchability. But how do you publish a feed without it being seen by Google ?

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