Google search — Frequently Asked Questions on True Nudists

ukKeithOriginal Poster

Apr 14, 2009

I was tipped off yesterday that if you punch your truenudists name into google up comes a photo, and, YES it does. Can i change my profile name easily without having to be re-certified ? or is there a trick to sort this out ? as I see this as a big problem. Can the site owners rectify this ? am i being paranoid ? what is the meaning of life ? and why does dropped toast always land butter side down ?
Keith from UK

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Philfreeeuk
Apr 14, 2009
[quote]I was tipped off yesterday that if you punch your truenudists name into google up comes a photo, and, YES it does. Can i change my profile name easily without having to be re-certified ? or is there a trick to sort this out ? as I see this as a big problem. Can the site owners rectify this ? am i being paranoid ? what is the meaning of life ? and why does dropped toast always land butter side down ? Keith from UK[/quote] Hi Keith, welcome to the site. We have been here before, it is true of most sites that your username can be found on google. I think it's fare to say, that if you need to hide your profile here from people that know your username, you do not want to use the same name here, as you may have, say on other social networking sites. To find more opinions on this, go here :)TN profiles and pics available through Google search.http://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=21562&post=136852------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TrueNudists Google search is just wronghttp://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=1481------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Google searchhttp://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=2341&post=130875------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Profile Picture on Googlehttp://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=21156&post=136277------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TN profiles and pics available through Google search.http://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=21562------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Profile Searchhttp://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=25677------------------------------------------------------------------------------Phil.ps. Yes you can change it, go, my account, (Down next to you pic) edit my: then click on profile. pps. If you find out the meaning of life, ........please tell ME! :)
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ukKeithOriginal Poster
Apr 14, 2009
Hi Phil, many thanks for the helpful reply, Keith
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Thomas
Apr 14, 2009
I am still searching for the meaning of life, but the reason buttered toast always falls buttered side down is due to the weight being slightly higer on that side. Adding jelly really increased the odds. LOL
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nuderunr
Apr 15, 2009
More bad news brought to you by our friends at Google. Today I was surfing the Google Images looking for illustrative images for my blog. In particular I was looking for images from Hippie Hollow, a clothing optional beach on Lake Travis in the Austin, Texas area. I entered “Hippie Hollow” as my search term initially which yielded mostly un-peopled photos of the shoreline. I then entered “Hippie Hollow Nudists”. Imagine my surprise when up popped in the thumbnails a photograph of yours truly. The photograph I uploaded to this site and used as my first profile picture. Clicking on the thumbnail took me to a forum page here on TN where I had entered a post which did of course deal with nudity but had absolutely nothing to do with Hippie Hollow.

First I learned an important lesson about Google images. I had long assumed that the images there unless they had the boilerplate disclaimer, “May be subject to copyright” were in the public domain and so I have been using images found there willy nilly for illustrating my blog. Obviously I was under the wrong impression as that photo of me that will now float carefree about the Internet forever was certainly never placed into the public domain by me.

While I’m not particularly upset about my rather surprising discovery, this is just more food for thought for those who are concerned about someone getting hold of a photo of you in the buff that you would rather not do so. Pretty much it seems, any photo you upload to this site or anywhere on the Internet can very well be snatched up by Google’s web crawlers and show up as a result of someone’s search term even one that has little if anything to do with what they were searching for.

I have an acquantance who created and operates a shall we say, sexually oriented web site. And no, I am not a member of it. But when I was discussing this with him, he mentioned that his site has security measures to prevent what happened to me from happening to members of his site so that their privacy is protected. Going to his site takes you only to a rather generic home page that gives a little basic information about what the site is about. But before you can get into the meat and potatoes of the site you must request membership. Apparently this keeps out the nasty little web crawlers. As I recall, when I first came to TN, I was as a visitor pretty much kept from browsing photos but if I remember correctly, I was able to go right into the forums and of course see the “profile” pictures next to anyone’s post. And clicking on the “thumbnail” took me to the person’s profile page where I was able to see a larger version of their profile picture. I just couldn’t look at any other photos they may have posted. Perhaps TT1 should consider something similar for here in the interest of protecting people’s privacy.
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BarefootBill
Jun 5, 2009
Yes, it is there. I just tried googling Barefootbill and my page and photo came up. When I did "Barefoot Bill" it also came up but not in the first couple pages. And when I googled my real name, Bill Pacer, it came up on page 3 of the search because my signature here includes my name.
Do I change or do I accept. With me, there is other sites that refer to my nude activities, such as acting and modeling sites. I was also very active in nudist public relations and politics some years back. Thus, I shrug and accept. I do not care who sees and shares and posts. I am a proud and bold nudist.
However, if someone needs to hide or mask their nudist proclivities, they should consider an obsure non-word name or making their photos only viewable to friends. I know this may limit friends, but until the world acknowledges nude is normal, this might be a viable option.
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catbird
Jun 5, 2009
I have a user name "catbird" that is a breed of real birds. Hence "catbird" would be of more interest to naturalists, not naturists. For curiousity I googled my user name. My profile came up on page 47, which is far down. Who would have the patience to search 47 pages?
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Srcon28
May 11, 2011
Tried it and it lists my posts. Tried it with ukKeith and like he suggested it comes up with the profile photo and the photos of your friends below. Note too that it also does the same thing with Yahoo Search.
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westheathen
May 11, 2011
Someone mentioned about being able to see all photos when this was discussed previously. This may be a silly question but had you logged out of the site before you did your search. If you shut your browser down and re-open without being logged in the results should be different.
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westheathen
May 13, 2011
[quote]Eeeeeeeerrrrmmmm...yeah! And by the way, I thought tea was a beverage....eat?[/quote]You are correct Knarfje, tea is a drink. but it can also refer to a meal, in the evening. I am not sure what you refer to your meals as in The Netherlands; but in England we have breakfast(morning), dinner or lunch at about half way through the day, then tea (early evening) and maybe also supper (late night).The English language is nothing if not confusing. :)Incidentally is anyone else having problems with the quote feature? This is the second time recently I have attempted to use it,, but it has not segregated the quote from my reply?
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westheathen
May 13, 2011
Thanks for that Connaught, it seems to be an intermitant and annoying glitch.
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Steve
May 13, 2011
No, Google will not show strangers your profile portfolio. Only the main profile pic, and anything you've posted to the forum. Shutting down your browswer does NOT log you out of Truenudists - it uses a cookie to keep you logged in for a period of time regardless. So when you've done these tests, you've still been logged in. Try this: LOG OUT of Truenudists (upper right of screen) then restart your browser and google yourself. Now you're really seeing what a stranger would see.
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Mikedawg
Jun 20, 2011
who should I contact to inform the website managers that a simple line can be added to each profile page to hide them from search engines? they could be added with an automatic loop, then with a simple line of code in asp.net or whatever html writing software is used whenever someone creates a new profile. Here it is if anyone can forward this to them.
The following META tag tells the Search Engine robots not to index this page and not to follw and links within the page (must be inserted within the <head> </head> block):
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
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All4Fun609
Jan 2, 2012
I just did a Google search of my name and none of my images came up. I think that's probably because most of my pictures are view-able only to friends and/or certified members.
What did come up were those of friends on here and also some posts I have made. Also turns out that my username is used by someone else on other sites on the internet.
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sunnmaxx
Jan 3, 2012
I was also told that Google saves every site you search for and while TN is not a porn site I don't want anyone to know how often I visit nudists sites so I use a different search engine. Anybody else confirm this?
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Curt, or Cowboy
Jan 3, 2012
[quote] I was also told that Google saves every site you search for and while TN is not a porn site I don't want anyone to know how often I visit nudists sites so I use a different search engine. Anybody else confirm this?[/quote]Perhaps in a cookie, or a session cookie.
Anything more would take resources beyond current technology.
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