Donna I am intrigued by your problem. I work for a search engine optimization consulting firm specializing in how search engines work (in fact my boss is presenting research to Google at their internal conference this weekend). I can tell you that it is impossible for Google or any other search engine to put information on their Search Engine Results Page (SERP) that has not existed on your page at one time or other.
The question is, have you checked the source code or are you just looking at the output or a WYSIWYG version (i.e. through Legacy/Frontpage/Internet Explorer etc)? The way to check is to open Internet Explorer and select View, Source. You will then be able to see the actual code on the page. Google will only display this content (it has access to nothing else). I have checked my own site code (also generated by Legacy) and have found no issues with living individuals. If you verify that your code is clean (i.e. doesn't have living info), please contact me directly with your URL at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I would like to have my research team take a look at what is going on in more detail. Regards, Marina Garrison RE: [LegacyUG] Privatize ALL the Living - Help Donna Alden-Bugden Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:31:13 -0700 No...actually I have never published any details on living people. I cannot undertand how Google is able to grab information that is private. My living people, if you go to my site, has always said 'private' and you had to contact me. It is supposed to be crawled every 3 days and it seems to have all the details since the day it was indexed...the cache has details too, but not dates, just full names. I don't know how it can access it. Since it is clearly not on my site and it is indexed every 3 days or so. However, I notice that if I privatize an individual, then all my data is deleted from my gedcom before I even upload it to my server for my pages. Donna Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
