Google launches new blog search tool... that includes all of LJ!

[drscott]

Bad news, kiddies. I, like many of you, have my settings set to exclude search engines, so my postings about weird topics don't end up as answers to queries on Google and the like. Well, Google has launched a blog search tool which doesn't respect the setting. This means all of your security-through-obscurity feelings about LJ are out the window. "Friends only" is now the way to go if you want to remain free of prying eyes. Which means friends who casually read your journal will have to join LJ to see anything.

Comments

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

I'm glad there's a blogsearch tool. I'm often trying to find some old post that I vaguely remember. It looks like it doesn't go back very far, though. It's advanced search techniques give you a beginning date parameter of March 2005.

It totally sucks that they got around the "no spiders" setting, though. They're sure to catch well-deserved flak.