oh crap

[ritaxis]

When you google "Kemnitzer" this livejpournal is the third and my little story site the fourth hits. This is wrong on so many levels. (The first is my uncle Brian and the "lemon law" which addresses dishonest used car sales. He does other good things too. The second is a moderately distant cousin, Mike, who makes mandolins. I've never met him, but I'm proud to have a mandolin maker in the family copse)

1: there are a bunch of Kemnitzers who are much more likely to be the ones being searched for, some of whom I'm not sure I'm related to in any measurable way, not that that has anything to do with it.

2: although this is by and large a public journal and I lock any entries that I think might be problematic for any reason, it's still a personal journal, making it much less important in the scheme of things than the professional materials put online by those other Kemnitzers.

I know livejournal has a way to suppress your journal's appearance on Google. I had briefly considered it before but if I really wanted to hide I wouldn't be having an online journal, would I? Now I'm considering it again, because it's just not right to have it be so (relatively) prominent. It's sort of dampening.

Oh, and those tags: they're for me. Any way I can make the list of tags private? I'm not sure I want to, but I'd like to think about it.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Are those other Kemnitzers *hard* to find? Sounds like they're still on the first page of results, so anybody looking for them will find them right away. In fact I just checked and they're both *before* you on the page I got.

Also, do you actually have any idea how many people are searching for which? By being active on the net quite a lot, you're probably searched for more than the others. Perhaps the current results are right for the searches actually being run.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I thought I said: Brian and Mike occur before me, Luis, Jeannie, Ron, after me, and the apparently very cool person (Susan?) who does work on retaining minority students in engineering programs is way back there.

I can't believe people search out my livejournal to that degree. I'm not that prominent. I would have thought I was nearly invisible. This is not false modesty, I don't think. Just a comparison with some of the people whose stuff I read.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I don't know that they're searching your LJ so much as they're searching you. Ritaxis is not particularly obvious.

[redbird]

According to the tagging FAQ, you can't hide the list of tags, but if you've only used a tag on friends-locked posts, only people who can see those posts will be told about the tag, and if you use a tag only on private posts, nobody else will see it. Also, "When someone else views a tag-filtered page, such as http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/tag/tagname, they will still only see the entries they are allowed to see, no matter what the tag security level is."

So if I had a tag "xyzzy" which I'd used on three public posts, five that were filtered to my "sweeties" group, and four private ones, and you searched for that tag on my journal, you'd see on the first three. My sweeties would see eight. I'd see all twelve.