The search for enlightenment

[news]

Since I was outed in the State of the Goat post I figured it was probably a good time to let you know what's going on with search and LJ.

In short ...

• We're building a search system for LJ: journals, entries, communities, people, or everything on the site.
• Our new search will respect your privacy settings.
• We tried talking to partners like Google

Comments

[pheret1]

If we don't want our page indexed, will it respect our "tell robots and spiders to go away" setting?

[cahwyguy]

I actually hope there are two settings. There's a difference between Google indexing things, and an internal LJ index that would respect things like "Friends" or "Custom Groups" settings on knowing when to display things.

[burr86]

Yeah, we're thinking we'd probably have something like that -- "let me search on LJ, but don't let other sites index". :)

[burr86]

Searchable only by people who can see them, not by random people.

[velvet_testing]

Most of my posts are public, but I would really appreciate an option along the lines of "only let people I've friended search my journal". Do you think that could be a possibility? I could make you cookies. :D

[thevelvetsun]

Not that it really matters, but that was me, signed into the wrong journal.

[rainfae]

I wish that there was an option to make your entire journal friends only....as I understand it now, you have to edit each back entry separately. So, while I don't have the time to do this now, I would definately NOT want my entire journal searchable, even the entries that are currently public.

[pbristow]

Hmmm, good point. The "retroactively protect everything" facility should be implemented *before* the search facilty. Long eough before that people can tighten up their security in advance of the launch of searching.

[2littlewings]

agreed.

[janisfan]

Agreed

[bookworm04]

I agree.
The retroactive-protection would also be a good idea in general.

[jittrbugg]

agreed.

[lynxduck]

Agreed. Protecting my past journal entries took weeks last time I tried it, post, by post...

[break_away89]

Yeah that's a sweet idea

[daasuperstar]

I agree aswell. I recently changed all my posts to friends only and it took hours. Then I had to go back and do it again because I missed a few. A 'protect everything' option would be great :0)