Ubuntu Forums - Super Googled

[Doctor Mike]

I never realized that posts on the forums would appear in a Google search so fast. I'm not talking about just the question/answer and bug report stuff, but the community cafe stuff as well.

Try a search for a post title and you'll likely see it listed on the first page of results.

Try a search on your user name + ubuntu if needed and you'll get something like this:

http://www.boardtracker.com/cgi-bin/display_member.pl?board=941&member=1034882

All I can say is wow.

[_h_]

All I can say is wow.

Google has alot of spiders on the forum, and a well established site can get indexed extremely fast in Google.

[swoll1980]

We own.

[Doctor Mike]

Google has alot of spiders on the forum (hidden as Guests), and a well established site can get indexed extremely fast in Google.My question would then be, do we want the community cafe indexed? Can't a spider be redirected so as not to index. I think I remember something about coding that in the header of a page.

Even more to the point, what other information (resolution center etc.) might be sucked up?

[jpeddicord]

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Ubuntu+Forums+-+Super+Googled%22

Creepy.

Google doesn't just get updates by crawling; though it's possible that's still the case here. It can also track RSS feeds (indexed via FeedBurner and Google Reader updates), blogs (http://blogsearch.google.com/ping), and other things pushed to it, which can explain the near-instantaneous indexing you see.

[Doctor Mike]

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Ubuntu+Forums+-+Super+Googled%22

Creepy.

Google doesn't just get updates by crawling; though it's possible that's still the case here. It can also track RSS feeds (indexed via FeedBurner and Google Reader updates), blogs (http://blogsearch.google.com/ping), and other things pushed to it, which can explain the near-instantaneous indexing you see.It's not just creepy, it explains why people try to spam and why others are paranoid about it.

[jpeddicord]

It's not just creepy, it explains why people try to spam and why others are paranoid about it.

It was a little tongue-in-cheek. But yeah, it could explain the vast quantities of spam (though in reality it's not that bad).

[Doctor Mike]

It was a little tongue-in-cheek. But yeah, it could explain the vast quantities of spam (though in reality it's not that bad).ODP use to have that kind of power. Even an editors bookmarks resulted in significant placement.

[HansKisaragi]

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Ubuntu+Forums+-+Super+Googled%22

Creepy.

Google doesn't just get updates by crawling; though it's possible that's still the case here. It can also track RSS feeds (indexed via FeedBurner and Google Reader updates), blogs (http://blogsearch.google.com/ping), and other things pushed to it, which can explain the near-instantaneous indexing you see.

More creeepy

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Super+Googled&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Gmail+Thoughts&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

You only need to google parts of the topic title.

[nmaster]

there is also a really useful custom Ubuntu google search:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=012285703143635244993%3Ai9yr8qlpb18&q=

i find it more useful than the regular google.com/linux search.

you can make your own custom search here:
http://www.google.com/cse/

[HansKisaragi]

there is also a really useful custom Ubuntu google search:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=012285703143635244993%3Ai9yr8qlpb18&q=

i find it more useful than the regular google.com/linux search.

http://crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine/ looks better :)

[jpeddicord]

There's also http://search.ubuntu.com/, which includes the forums.

[Phrea]

A far cry from the old google dance days...

[jpeddicord]

A far cry from the old google dance days...

I still remember when you had to use http://www.google.com/addurl/ to have any chance of being in the index. :P

[Doctor Mike]

I still remember when you had to use http://www.google.com/addurl/ to have any chance of being in the index. :PThe ODP I was referring to was before GOOGlE was anything. Yahoo was the powerhouse then and almost everybody (search engines) got most of there listings from the ODP.