Odd Stuff

[petermarcus]

All this talk about Google lately, so I did an ego search on my alias, and www.livejournal.com/users/petermarcus showed up. Nothing hit on content...for instance, when I searched on: +petermarcus +iraq I didn't get anything except a few friendspage hits (which is unblockable, of course). It didn't bring up any of my personal entries directly, which is good. But, it bugs me that my main link came up. I've had the spider blocking on for a couple years now and it's worked for a long time.

For the couple people that have asked, I found that there is a way to remove your site from Google immediately (well, relatively) -- that is, you don't have to wait for another spider visit. You need the robots.txt option, though. Here are the details: http://www.google.com/remove.html#exclude_website

Comments

[macaholic.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link...the only thing I have found is the user info page as well.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

The link worked -- my page is gone now.

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[macaholic.livejournal.com]

cool

[twirlingtulip.livejournal.com]

i had a dream that my cousin found my journal. thank goodness that he doesnt know my alias.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

A lot of people IRL know my alias. But I don't think any of them know LJ exists, or if they do, I don't think they know that *I* know LJ exists ;)

Still, I'd rather no one I know IRL (outside of LJ people) reads this. Too restricting.