Doods.

[fufaraw]

All of a sudden I feel incredibly exposed. I went to LJ search for something, and the proprietary Yandis LJ has used in-house forever is no more. It's Google search on LJ now, with results visible on the Google site itself. I don't really post intimate, private things on LJ even under flock, and I rarely ever flock posts in this journal. But I still am not crazy about a lighthearted conversation being readily apparent for anybody on Google. Or a pissy rant, or whatever.

I have both Facebook and Twitter accounts, mainly to keep track of people I don't see or hear from otherwise. I get news those places, I email. I don't post there, and I rarely hit the like button or comment on anything. I am aware every facet of our lives is on the internet already, really I am. But I have  a dumbphone and intend to keep it as long as possible. If I'm away from my laptop, I'm offline. I don't have Google+ and I store nothing voluntarily in the cloud. I interact at the level I'm comfortable, and I keep my settings as locked down as possible and still have that interaction.

I'd really prefer not to have my every word and opinion on LJ broadcast for the entire world, and I'm not happy about this whole Google-availabilty of every post on LJ. I know I'm prone to going dark without warning, to gaps in interaction, to random unpredictable silences--those are emotional necessity. This? Is just my paranoia being triggered, I guess. Am I the only one?

Comments

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Huh. I just tried doing a search -- www.livejournal.com/search -- and got the Yandis, or whatever it is. How did you access the search?

[fufaraw]

I just went to the box on the upper right corner of the page, like always. Surprised the heck out of me.

Interesting. I searched for this journal from the older one, and got Google. I searched for the older LJ from this one and got the Yandex. I guess some servers are in the middle of converting.

[fufaraw]

Okay, I found a workaround. If you type Yandex in the search box at the top right of the page, Yandex search comes up and then you can search LJ with that, rather than Google.

I guess I'm just really being paranoid, but it gives me the wiggins to have *google* searching LJ!

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

I don't know what this means. I think, once again, that I probably have my LJ set up wrong somehow.

Also, I still can't keep my freakin' icons from reverting to the default. How did everyone else fix this?

[fufaraw]

A lot of folks have been having trouble with icons, and also with notification, if their settings are for LJ to notify them of updates. I think that's been settling down--apparently LJ's aware of it and is fixing it. I hope that's the case with you.

I just went to your LJ page, and from there I used the search box in the top right corner of the page to search for my name. It came up as Google search of the whole internet. LJ has used Yandex as an internal search *of* LJ-only for years--I don't know what LJ used before Yandex. If I type "Yandex" into the search box at the top right of the page, Yandex search comes up and I can type in an lj-user's name, or a subject I'm interested in, like, "horses," and it does the internal search of LJ only, rather than an internet-wide Google search.

It may be a temporary glitch, since I haven't seen anybody else complain about it. But I have my journal settings to *not* be Google-able, as much as possible, so this sort of startled me. There's a workaround, for now, which is not to search directly but to search for Yandex first, and when that comes up search in the Yandex search box. So I'll use that.

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the news. I thought I had set things up so no one outside LJ could see. I don't even post cute pics of myself because of that creepy "here's your face that was posted in some random location that we were able to identify by facial recognition," or however they do it.

I shall investigate further.