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PRIVATE BC Shouts viewable when searching alias on Yahoo! WTF?
Posted by sinuousscribe • 8 months ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS]
Topics: blog catalog, yahoo
Actually, ALL discussions are also viewable. When I do a search in Yahoo using my sinuousscribe alias, at the bottom of the screen is this:
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the ones already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
This last section is a link. When I click that, I get 41 pages of my discussion on bc and, this is the part that really pisses me off, my PRIVATE shouts are viewable as well!
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What! Tell me it ain't so. I knew shouts that aren't marked "private" were being indexed. I did not know the those that are so marked are being indexed.
outrageous!-
when I log into bc and view my shouts, the private ones are marked in red: "private" but when I did the yahoo search, they are there!
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ok done
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Is anyone else aware of this? ..the discussions; fine. BUT, my private shouts? ..they're private!
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Great, I'll have to look elsewhere for cyberse--- uh, I mean ... hey, admins! DO SOMETHING!
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I think you're ok. Friday13 pulls a LOT of other results. ..for obvious reasons. But, if someone really wanted to dig around, they might be able to dig up some dirt.
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Uhh, erm... That's not cool-
omg, NO. ..it's really not. I feel exposed
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I wonder if I closed my bc account, the info would still be viewable?
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Oh.... really ;-)
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Wow. I am glad I checked back in here before turning in. This is fcuked up! -
Delete this post as quick as possible
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I came across a discussion that was deleted here by admin when searching my alias. ...I don't think deleting works...
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I was actually joking.
I'm not being disrespectful, I was just referring to people that may have used it for SEO reasons, not that anyone would have ever workled that out.
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comments that I've left on other blogs are also viewable
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The private ones are not viewable at all on Google, Bing or yahoo
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mine are! ..they are not marked private on yahoo but they ARE in my bc shoutbox...
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mine aren't , can you give me an example. I was testing this the other week
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hang on did you click on they link to see the messages?-
yes, so anyone who searches yahoo for sinuousscribe can read my private shouts. I don't see ALL of my private shouts, but some are there
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Yours aren't private, they are public shouts
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umm this may be a silly question .... but
were you logged in at the time? -
AG you wouldn't be able to see her PM's anyway
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what's a PM
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private message
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she's made a mistake, hers are public. I've tested this for some weeks now
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lol
I guess that will teach people to write thins that are better left unsaid.-
no more love letters :-)
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I TOLD YOU WE'D BE CAUGHT.
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does he know?
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i know and that is bad enough
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As I'm deleting my entire shoutbox (yes, I apparently have something to hide), I'm finding it hard to imagine the admin would know about this and carry on the way they do.
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No but I'm sure he will soon. Do you have a gun?
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I'm not answering the firearms question.
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It comes in 4 different colours
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I think people just don't get that there is no real privacy on the web especially in forums, even when something is marked private, so it is probably better not to say anything you wouldn't say publicly. email is a much better option.
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Good , I feel better now.
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Why did u start this thread? Why why why...... couldn't u have just told a few of us privately,haha *she laughs nervously* then heads straight 4 yahoo -
Not suprised. Though nothing came up for me just some link to an interview I did with Anok. -
and you just had to go and say something...-
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damn! I didn't even read that!
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very funny
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Uh oh what did u say that got removed so fast
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Nothing comes up for you --- FOR me...
I looked you up and your private shouts are not visible to me...
Uhm can anyone else see sinous' private shouts?-
she has removed them all in fear
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I saw them. Are you sure you clicked private sinuousscribe?
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they are still in the yahoo cache... but they are public not private ones, well they were a litle while ago
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Ooooh --- I see what you mean - MINE are in there too - and so is everyone's ...
That's TRULY not cool.-
it's great for SEO
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Sadly, if this is the case even if you delete the messages they will still be shown in the search results.
search engines (maybe not just Yahoo) have already indexed the content from these private messages and there is nothing BC admin can do to erase them from the results, other than changing the system to private shouts aren't written in the HTML at ALL -> then pinging the pages and hoping they update.
That's a quick fix and we won't have private shouts until it gets fixed for good.
There is no quick solution to fix this, I think the best option is actually to keep this under wraps until it's fixed, before people start exploiting it. Sorry for the Communisim, but this thread needs to be closed immediately while the BC Admins fix the situation.-
Code puppy
I can't see Private shouts indexed, only public. -
Have reported
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I agreeeeeeeee
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Might be great for SEO - but HORRIBLE for private information given out like Emails (email harvesters) and for private name/address info etc.
That's really bad... Is that why people drop their links in the boxes?-
No, most people wouldn't think of it.
I found it by testing
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Is there a way to delete all of them without clicking delete on each one?
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i've always just done one at a time, and i do a mantra, light incense and send them into cyberspace
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@ww
Is there a way to delete all of them without clicking delete on each one?
No - unfortunately there isn't. -
Darn darn darn... Wowser... That's a lotta clickin'
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leave any to me, I don't care... it's all the Belgium computer anyway
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FWIW we can get pages that "404" deleted from Google's cache
onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/how-to-remove-data-from-googles-cache/
Will someone please check to see if Yahoo has a similar option?
I have to work tonight. -
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LOL!!
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In fact, why not try it all over the web
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Right, like you need help with promotion [she rolls her eyes]
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just teasing
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Fine - use mine then (sigh) if you have to use any... LOL!
Cause I could use the promotion... LOL!-
quick start shouting
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