On Sep 11, 1:21 pm, Tim2217 <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless there is a way to ***Remove*** a link that is posted on a group > - I must seriously warn users about advertising a link to a project > they are working on - simply put - don't do it!
There is a way. Members can remove their own posts. Moderators can remove any post -- BUT this is not done lightly. Once a post is removed its significance in search results will be lessened (although it will probably still appear and may well be available in the search cache). Once a post is removed it will no longer appear in the "internal" search though. Don't forget too that it's not just Google who index groups; and that every post is emailed to the majority of members. The number of "no email" members who only use the web interface is lower than the number of those who get posts by email. > In Oct 2008 I contracted with a firm to resolve a Google Maps API > issue on a site in development and they posted the link to help > others. Now Google has indexed that link, the client site has gone > live - and guess what ranks number 1 when search for my clients domain > name - all the references to the errors and problems encountered from > the Google Groups discussion. > > My client is livid. I'm embarrassed. And Google is unresponsive, while > my removal requests of the reference to the link itself have been > ignored. > > I can't believe I'm the first to fall victim to such an unintentional > situation and hope a solution can be found. Naturally, where commercial issues are involved one has to use good judgement in what is posted. Everything here is indexed by the main Google search engine.* A link is definitely required for the majority of issues, so recommending that members do not provide one is not exactly helpful! But we don't need a link to the development site or to anything which identifies a contracting company: simply to a page which demonstrates the problem and uses exactly the same code as the "real" page. If it's not possible to host such a demo elsewhere, then something like tinyurl can be used to mask the destination domain. Andrew *And that's just as well since the "internal" search facility is so flaky. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
