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

[phornax.livejournal.com]

It's worse than you say. They're picking up friends-only posts!!!

(:::gulp:::)

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

I've searched for items that I have listed as "friends-only" and didn't get any results. Were the "friends-only" posts that you found ever public? Once it's public and indexed, Google has always kept a record of it.

[phornax.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. And the other good thing is that they appear to have been indexing only since the beginning of July.