← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Ron
Thread ID: 19165 | Posts: 15 | Started: 2005-07-16
2005-07-16 03:47 | User Profile
I wonder if anyone would know how some of my posts end up on the Google search engine. I have seen a couple of mine from SF and one from here. Are all of our posts subject to a Google search?
2005-07-16 03:52 | User Profile
It seems like the whole internet is on Google. It makes you think about what the Feds are archiving.
Google can index a message board just the same as the rest of the internet. Google's Robots search for anythign to index. But, they can be instructed to not index something, such as this forum.
2005-07-16 03:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ron]I wonder if anyone would know how some of my posts end up on the Google search engine. I have seen a couple of mine from SF and one from here. Are all of our posts subject to a Google search?[/QUOTE]
Google's web spiders are far-reaching and indiscriminate...almost every public forum is similarly catalogued. With 8 Billion plus pages now included in their data base there's not much of a personal touch. :D
2005-07-16 03:58 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Howard Campbell, Jr.]Google's web spiders are far-reaching and indiscriminate...almost every public forum is similarly catalogued. With 8 Billion plus pages now included in their data base there's not much of a personal touch. :D[/QUOTE]
I better watch what I write if Big Brother is watching. :censored:
2005-07-16 04:25 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ron]I better watch what I write if Big Brother is watching. :censored:[/QUOTE]
The Big Brother of 1984 only watched people, this one, the internet, gets your inner most thoughts and opinions right out of your head.
2005-07-16 06:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ron]I wonder if anyone would know how some of my posts end up on the Google search engine. I have seen a couple of mine from SF and one from here. Are all of our posts subject to a Google search?[/QUOTE]Yes, in fact you'd be surprised how often, doing research at random on Google, how often I get ed back to our own forum. Guess it tells you we're a group with special interests and knowledge not realy duplicated in many aspects.
BTW, I think Tex said that before, but people are always commenting how many visitors we have. At least a lot of those visitors are just search engines.
2005-07-18 17:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Yes, in fact you'd be surprised how often, doing research at random on Google, how often I get ed back to our own forum. Guess it tells you we're a group with special interests and knowledge not realy duplicated in many aspects.
BTW, I think Tex said that before, but people are always commenting how many visitors we have. At least a lot of those visitors are just search engines.[/QUOTE] But who are the lurkers?
That's the interesting question, don't you think? :ph34r:
2005-07-18 19:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angeleyes]But who are the lurkers? [/QUOTE]
They're there and they're real. We're on track to have 40,000+ unique visitors here at OD this July, and that number excludes search engine robots and spiders.
2005-07-18 19:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ron]I better watch what I write if Big Brother is watching. :censored:[/QUOTE]
I think it's too late.
Oh well. I never wanted to see two fingers anyway. It looks like four if you squint real hard.
2005-07-18 19:32 | User Profile
[I][B][U]Everybody's[/I][/B][/U] on Google! Enter any screen name into the search engine and you'll come up with a hit.
2005-07-18 20:12 | User Profile
On a related note, was any of the material on the old Sam Francis Online Forum saved for posterity?
There was a lot of good stuff there. - Perhaps the ADL or SPLC would be nice enough to make up some cd's or mp3's of all the good old stuff that they have archived? :whstl:
2005-07-20 09:55 | User Profile
OPERA96,
Very true. [QUOTE]Everybody's on Google! Enter any screen name into the search engine and you'll come up with a hit.[/QUOTE]
But the Stormfront's Faust is not me.
2005-07-20 12:36 | User Profile
Google is one of the few modern-era wrinkles I'm glad about, actually. Google means no one with a computer has any excuse to be stupid and uninformed. If you encounter a topic that intrigues you but you're otherwise ignorant of, you're a click away from at least a cursory understanding of it.
And frankly, given the way message-board archives tend to crash, get hacked and often just vanish forever, I'm glad there's a record....even if it's just a dead link. I don't sit at my keyboard so I can shout into a wind tunnel, or an echo chamber. I'm trying to be heard, after all.
2005-07-20 16:49 | User Profile
This is funny as hell, I did a search on my name and found out that because I was involved with a para-military group of military advisors back in 62 they had me involved with the death of JFK, lucky for me I was back in the Army and in Korea.
I still remember that they woke us up at 4 am in order to tell us that JFK had been shot and then they gave us the day off, at the barber shop a black Sgt said that he was glad that JFK had been shot and this big white SP/4 punched his brain inside out.
I don't mind saying that I did cry, even after his screw up at the Bay of Pigs.
This was kind of funny, I didn't wanted anyone to see me crying so I went behind our commo trucks and there I found a Sgt and a Pvt also crying.
2005-07-21 01:46 | User Profile
[url="http://www.2600.com/"]http://www.2600.com/[/url]
In the Spring 2005 issue of 2600, the Hacker Quarterly (yes it's a real magazine, you can get it at B&N), there is an article on how not to get picked up by google. I will give a brief synopsis of the article: [QUOTE] How to Get Out of Google by Chess Learn to stay out of Google. ...Having your page delisted in Google is almost like having your page password protected where the password is your URL!... I'm assuming that if you want out of Google you want out of them all. The first thing you want to do is add some meta tags to your index.html. If you want Google and every other engine to ignore your entire site during its spidering of the web, add this meta tag to your header: ' META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" ' (REPLACE THE TICK MARKS ( ' ) WITH THESE < >) // .... IF you want your page to be listed in Google but don't want them to store an archive of your page, then add only this next tag to your header: ' META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE" ' (REPLACE THE TICK MARKS ( ' ) WITH THESE < >) .... If you want absolutely no search engines even looking at any page on the site, instead of using META tags do this... Pull up Notepad and type in the following two lines: User-agent: * Disallow: /
Save this file as robots.txt and ftp it to your site's root directory. This will tell the Googlebot and actually all other search engines not to bother looking at your page and to spider somewhere else. ... After you've done all that, go and sign up for a Google account at [url="http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller"]http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller[/url] This page is for people who urgently want their URLs removed from the index. Even then it will take up to 24 hours. ... After you create an account, Google will email you a link where you enter the URL of your robots.txt file you just uploaded and then Google sends their bot over to your site right away to read it. With any luck, you're out of the index in a day or two. [/QUOTE] So whomever owns this board can add this to the index page of OD and the same will hold true for the whole board. If you need assistance you can drop me a line.