just in case

[fountaingirl]

Remove any and all posts indexed from this journal by/to Ljfind.

Anyone have any idea how well this works or by what mechanism?

Comments

[imbrium8]

No idea, but they'd better fix this--I was pissed as hell to find anything from my journal on there, seeing as how my entire journal is flocked.

[rabswom]

Yes, please explain.

[imbrium8]

Here, instructions to opt out of a "service" that automatically indexes all lj posts--apparently, even if they are f-locked.

[rabswom]

How is that possible? It indexes the content of my locked posts?

[imbrium8]

It certainly seems that way, since that's what it did with mine. Not all of them--probably not even 20--but I'm still incredibly furious.

[melvillean]

You can unclench. Seriously. Just google your username and ljfind and the only thing that shows up is that meme we all did for The Golden Compass where we were, like, ocelots and weasels and shit.

[imbrium8]

FYI - googling your name plus lj search won't tell you everything that's been indexed. Here's the trick - type in the following URL:

http://www.ljfind.com/user/USERNAME where USERNAME is your, uh, username.

[fountaingirl]

Yah, and a comment I made on somebody's blog. No big.
Still, not a bad idea to have the disclaimer up, since it is in the ljfind instructions on how to not be indexed.

[melvillean]

It actually isn't. All his instructions say is to make a public post after having turned on the "no indexing" functionality for your journal. But based on what I've seen it's either false promise or one that's only haphazardly applied. (See my most recent post.)

[windrose]

WHY do they think things like this are a good idea? It always ends in tears. I've had my journal set to hide from search engines from day one for a REASON.

[theal8r]

*woot* absolutely nothing of mine is indexed!