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Offline kelw45

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« on: Sunday 07 October 12 19:20 BST (UK) »
I would like to know how to block messages I enter from showing up on search engines, such as Google.
Thanks.

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« Reply #1 on: Sunday 07 October 12 19:38 BST (UK) »
If you mean board messages posted on this site, then you cannot.
The plus side is that others can find your postings.

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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 07 October 12 20:10 BST (UK) »
Quote from: deasum1 on Sunday 07 October 12 19:20 BST (UK)
I would like to know how to block messages I enter from showing up on search engines, such as Google.
Thanks.

Why?

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« Reply #3 on: Sunday 07 October 12 20:32 BST (UK) »
Your profile name may be the problem. There is a lack of other "Deasum1" names on the web, so yours is coming up repeatedly. (I just did a quick search in Google.)
It's like my one, "Flattybasher9". A search in Google throws up a page of references, but if I search for "Malky" I am lost in the multitude of more famous ones.
You should perhaps think of changing your profile name in the many sites that you are registered with, to a more common name. You will then become a single leaf in a forest of trees.

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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 07 October 12 22:19 BST (UK) »
It's not the profile name that comes up in Google.  If you have put a request on here for help finding someone, say John Smith, then everyone who ever searches for John Smith on Google will eventually find a link to the Rootschat thread.  Obviously if you ask for help searching for someone with a very rare name, then your request will probably show up on the first page of a Google search.

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