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See previous entry for context & explanation.

Poll #879 Search poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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My journal searchability preferences

View Answers

Block all searches (Google and within-site)
2 (13.3%)

lock Google searches; allow site users to search my journal
9 (60.0%)

Allow all searches (Google and within-site)
4 (26.7%)

Allow Google searches; block site users from searching my journal
0 (0.0%)

ETA: ...er, the second option should read "Block Google searches; allow...".

Comments

[sara]

I think there are more possible options -- for instance, my personal preference would be to prohibit external search engine and site-wide searches of my content, but permit searches of my specific content -- e.g. people could come and search my posts on snails, or whatever, but if they searched Google or DW-as-a-whole for posts on snails, mine would not come up.

Which mostly has to do with me feeling like this is my social life, and that therefore I'm under no particular obligations to the internet as a whole to make it universally searchable.

[lo_rez]

I used to be a B but I'm easily irritated at this point and have edged into the A category. I forget who said "I am not your user-generated content" but I'd like to add "I am not your online [insert subject/product here] research sample" as a rider.

I wouldn't mind if my access-listers could search my entire journal, though.