stooz wrote:XFool wrote:mc2fool wrote:...but just to point out that TLF is a public-to-read website -- you only need to login to post --
Apart from the
Current Affairs & News boards (plus a few other places).
Not entirely. The search engine bots have their own access points so can read more. It's the humans that need to create an account to see more.
Are you sure about that? Take, for example, the thread about
BBC news coverage on that board. The text of it starts:
Quite a contrast in news channels today. Both Sky and BBC were covering Sturgeon's evidence live today, both switched away to cover the budget, but then BBC have switched back to yet more live coverage of Sturgeon.
Odd choice of priorities, because surely the budget ramifications are far more important to most UK viewers then what's happening in Scotland.
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The text in black is all you'll see if you don't log in, followed by "login to view the rest of this post".
If I google the first sentence,
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.lemonfool.co.uk "Quite a contrast in news channels today", it finds the post.
If, however, I google a phrase just past what I'd see without logging in, e.g.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.lemonfool.co.uk "Odd choice of priorities", it doesn't find the post.
Further, if you look at the cached copy of the post found by the first search you'll see it shows the truncated not-logged-in version.
So, all that indicates to me that at least google can't see any more than non-logged in humans do.