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:: Thursday, October 09, 2003 ::

If you put up a webpage, is it considered "published" and therefore distributed and fair game for search engine spiders?

"IMO a page with no links to it would equate to a brick & mortar locked door with a Private sign on it."

"What's bothersome about the Google toolbar indexing a page that hasn't been "published" in that manner is that people aren't necessarily aware that they are sharing the page with the rest of the world. Not everyone reads all of the small print."

"The web is not designed for children. It is actually a very powerful, and thus rather scary thing at times, and not at all suitable as a toy."

"In a perfect world, everyone who makes a webpage knows what the hell they're doing."

If you make web pages and care what happens to them once you send them to your server, see this great discussion at How did this get indexed?

Other stuff:

The handsome Greg R. Notess, founder of Search Engine Showdown writes Bookmarklets, Favelets, and Keymarks: Shortcuts Galore

Experience Design: An Interview with Nathan Shedroff

"Experience Design takes into consideration the full range of a user's experience with a product, brand, or website. In my experience, designers sometimes don't consider all of the aspects of products and websites that may impact the people who interact with them. When I talk to clients, I ask them to consider that the boundaries of a product, service, event, or other experience are much wider than most design processes will allow."

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 10/09/2003 09:36:56 AM

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