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Subject: Blog Searches
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: jtaylorwalter-ga
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Posted: 17 Mar 2003 11:04 PST
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Question ID: 177432
Are Weblogs (blogs) included in Google search results?
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Subject: Re: Blog Searches
Answered By: surajambar-ga on 17 Mar 2003 13:20 PST
 
Hello. 

It depends.  Many hosts (like Xanga and Blogger) have no option to
block searching, and are fully indexed on Google.  For instance if one
searches for a random word like "orange" and limits the results by
using the term "site:xanga.com" or "site:blogspot.com" one gets these
results respectively:
://www.google.com/search?q=site:xanga.com+orange&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
://www.google.com/search?q=site:blogspot.com+orange&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

However, LiveJournal and hosts that use its code (like Blurty,
Deadjournal, and uJournal) have an option to "Block Robots/Spiders
from indexing your journal."  Google is among the search engines whose
spiders respect this rule.

Please let me know if you need a clarification before you rate this
answer.  Thank you for your question and thank you for using Google
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surajambar-ga

Clarification of Answer by surajambar-ga on 17 Mar 2003 13:29 PST
Also if you are hosting on your own server, you can set up your own
robots.txt file which can block robots from indexing parts (or all) of
your blog.

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm
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