Reply #175: Question about indexing engines eg Google

[muriel_volestrangler]

I think that DU is set up for archived forums, at least, not to be accessed by robot crawlers, eg Google - certainly the DU threads that show up on Google seem random, and just a small amount of the whole of DU. I presume this might be because the load on DU might be huge if all the archives were constantly accessed by the automated systems.

Will this also apply to journals? It's possible that, being the 'cream' of people's posts, they might bring a lot of new people to DU if they are indexed; but the load on DU might not be too much (though perhaps it will be, depending on how the pages are set up). Will the journals also appear on Google's blog search?