are my posts going to end up in google?

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if someone searches "google" for "john fail" will they eventually come across posts i've made here?

― john fail (cenotaph), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup. Or they could just search by your email address.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

fremme neppa venetta

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as I know, Google doesn't link to the threads themselves, but it does get the pages with the lists of threads (i.e. New Answers, categorised question lists, etc). So your name won't come up if you merely post a message, but if you start a thread - as you have just done - your name will appear, as thread starters appear in brackets after the title.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Or they could just search by your email address.

This isn't right. ILX hides full email addresses from anyone who is not logged in (inc. googlebots).

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe my idea to have the meta noindex flag on threads is a good idea

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm such a liar. Sorry. I swear I thought I was right!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

does it serve any purpose to have these threads in google? maybe norobots tags would make sense.....

― john fail (cenotaph), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i think google throws up complete threads if you happen to search for something that's mentioned - well it used to.....

and wait...

i don't thinlk it does anymore.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes it does make sense to have these threads in Google. Many posters came to ILX that way.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Including our most famous example of a certain Killing Joke fan.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

yes we would never have any fun if not for the Googlers, they honour more fire than anybody else ;)

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Since ilx moved from Greenspun.com to ilXor.com, Google has bothered with far less of our threads. Mostly it just indexes our New Answers, New Questions, and Categories pages. But yes, people searching your name will find it here, but not your email address.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

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