Google can't see friends-locked posts, just as anyone else not logged in as a friend of yours can't see them. But it can read anything you post publicly, since LJ is just another (often-updated) part of the web as far as Google is concerned. And Google indexes as much of the web as it can get to.
It indexed your entry while it was open to the public. And of course, Google searches are only as accurate as the last time Google indexed the relevant web sites, so it still knows that entry until the next time it indexes your LJ. (Luckily Google didn't cache that entry.)
My rule of thumb is to friends-lock anything I don't want Google (or other searchers) to see. Anything not locked has no privacy at all.
.... In other words, probably a good idea to lock anything related to your job searches. And anything else you don't want potential employers to see. :-)
Savvy employers do use Google to find out more about potential hires. Even if you use a pseudonym, they can often figure it out.
Yes, very good call. I mean, hopefully employers in my field will be the savviest employers of all -- the last people I worked for wanted to know about my favourite websites, if I keep a blog, what magazines, I read, etc, to test my knowledge of pop culture. So I'd be better be prepared for my savvy employers :)
I guess it's just a big tricky because I don't want them knowing much about me being pagan but whatever journal I have will inevitably detail that...
Very true, I can't be too angry about that because I did write it publicly. I did so in the naive belief that you'd have to search an LJ to find that, though -- it's not like I tagged the entries or anything. Don't know why I thought LJ wouldn't be heavily searchable.
Makes sense, though. A lesson learned a bit too late, but not so late that I can't be glad I didn't randomly write something worse. It's good to have had my eyes opened.
I am debating making a new LJ even or something with less personal info n it now that I am soon to get out into the professional world. Don't know.
This is the main reason I don't discuss work or even much school in my LJ. I actually have a manager who works downstairs who reads my LJ, and two other workers as well. I suspect they read it for a while before friending me, too.
The things indexed should go away soon. I'm not sure if you can ask Google not to index your journal (if you have control over the headers, it's a piece of cake, but I've never looked at them), or if you can ask them to de-cache something. But Google has an alarming speed when it comes to indexing LJ pages. It always has.
But if things are changed, it should disappear in about a month or so.
I don't trust any "please Google don't look at this" tags or headers, since it relies on the indexer to recognize it and honor it. There are other search engines out there, not all trustworthy. Better not to allow the indexer to see the forbidden content in the first place.
I just searched it, and while the beginning of your post still shows up, when I clicked on it I got an error 404 message. So, basically, you can just see that it came from SingingWren's journal, and you said "Fuck You" to all those people, but you can't read on to see why. As rfunk said, at least it isn't cached.
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It indexed your entry while it was open to the public. And of course, Google searches are only as accurate as the last time Google indexed the relevant web sites, so it still knows that entry until the next time it indexes your LJ. (Luckily Google didn't cache that entry.)
My rule of thumb is to friends-lock anything I don't want Google (or other searchers) to see. Anything not locked has no privacy at all.
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Savvy employers do use Google to find out more about potential hires. Even if you use a pseudonym, they can often figure it out.
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I guess it's just a big tricky because I don't want them knowing much about me being pagan but whatever journal I have will inevitably detail that...
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Makes sense, though. A lesson learned a bit too late, but not so late that I can't be glad I didn't randomly write something worse. It's good to have had my eyes opened.
I am debating making a new LJ even or something with less personal info n it now that I am soon to get out into the professional world. Don't know.
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another tool ppl can search blogs from
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hehe, i need to organize my tags at some point. i will use them in spurts and then stop, and then wish id tagged things...
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The things indexed should go away soon. I'm not sure if you can ask Google not to index your journal (if you have control over the headers, it's a piece of cake, but I've never looked at them), or if you can ask them to de-cache something. But Google has an alarming speed when it comes to indexing LJ pages. It always has.
But if things are changed, it should disappear in about a month or so.
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