Currently, waves are not crawlable by the Google spider, for technical reasons.
When waves do become crawlable, we would only permit publicly viewable waves to be crawled. Generally, Google Wave follows the same rules as other Google Apps, like Docs, Maps, etc. Your data (wave) is private by default, and is only public by explicitly making it so (i.e. by adding [email protected]) - pamela On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Ronald C.F. Antony <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Wave API" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-wave-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave 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-wave-api?hl=en.
