[Redsoxgal]

To the great minds on here; When you look at the bottom where it says who's signed on,like 3 members (names) 6 vistors etc. it says things like Google,Bing, Yahoo, etc.....what are they doing on here? is this where they get information? anyway just wondering....

[vegi]

Redsoxgal, on 03 November 2009 - 02:42 PM, said:

To the great minds on here; When you look at the bottom where it says who's signed on,like 3 members (names) 6 vistors etc. it says things like Google,Bing, Yahoo, etc.....what are they doing on here? is this where they get information? anyway just wondering....

search engines have "bots" that scan websites. So everything here, good or bad, is being crawled and indexed by search engines. That's why some of us remind people occasionally there is no real privacy on publicly accessible boards. Compliments, "naughty jokes", criticisms and horrible bashes by trolls all are being archived for eternity. Assume that what you write is forever, and that it may be read by someone who doesn't know your sense of humor or that your criticisms are with the best of intentions.

[Josephine]

WENDY and VEGI--thanks for bringing this to the attention
(hopefully) of those who haven't been aware of that. I
have always known that (and many times have wondered if
I should have said what I did). I told myself that, if
I'm telling the truth it's ok, but we should always have
in mind what you pointed out so well.

Take care,
Jo