On 3 May 2010, at 05:37, Kevin Gamble wrote:

> Now that we can embed waves on external sites does anyone know how Google 
> crawls these? My searches for wave content using my site search have been 
> coming up empty. Just curious if anyone knows how this is or isn't working.

More importantly: how can we make sure that a wave and anything that refers to 
it will NEVER, EVER be crawled?

If GW is supposed to replace IM, BBS, E-mail, etc. then sure as hell do I not 
want potentially private conversations show up on a google search, just because 
someone somewhere posted a snippet from that wave, or a link to something 
somewhere.

It has to be insured that something that is supposed to be private cannot 
become public by means of some backdoor opened up through a reference to it.

If someone quotes part of an e-mail, that usually does not make the entire 
conversation public. But computer morons are the rule rather than the 
exception, so someone posting a link to a wave or embedding a wave, rather than 
some snippet of text from a wave is a very likely outcome...

So I'd rather waves be un-crawlable unless a special member or bot is added to 
the wave explicitly.

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