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google spider

What the heck is a google spider? It is viewing our profiles!

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Becky, "quicklinks" is at the top next to "search" or you can go to the bottom and scroll through "forum jump". So now we can ALL be super-spys!

I think I feel violated!! something snooping around in our cyber world! Just kidding I have seen this name before, but I always just figured that it was a members name and that they just read what we wrote and they never posted anything. I never got curious enough to look at the google spiders profile!!! INTERESTING????

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Mr. Alex, LBT board owner, has advised that Google Spider is a bot that's sent out by Google.com to index pages so users can pull them up when they search on Google.com.

So, Ms. Alexandra is on her toes and was the only one that knew what was going on.

That damn spider has collected all of our info ..do a search on google with your scrren name from LBT and see all of your personal info and al of your postings come up..

That is not cool..this could deter members from joining or for some members to remove their pictures from their profiles.

Personally I think someone should look into the legality of it all. If I was required to obtain a password to get in here to post should that not be protected??? I would think so. Information I put in here that doesn't show to others can be brought up when they click in.

I've pm'd Mr. Alex, LBT board owner, to see if anything can

be done to prevent this.

I'll let you know what he advises.

If you type in your telephone number into google, a map will pop up to your house thru mapquest. Very scary. We have an unlisted phone number, so ours didn't come up, but I read that there is an unsubscribe button--i think it's a telephone--so you can have them delete your information--takes 2-3 days.

Interesting who can find you if they want to bad enough!

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I removed all of my stuff!

Mr. Alex, board owner, is going to post this issue in the forums and see what all users have to say about this.

Please respond to his thread after it is posted so he can get your feed back.

Hi Guys and Gals,

Please click here to visit the post I just created about this important issue.

Please vote and I'm going to base my final decision on your votes and feedback.

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