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11-07-2006, 09:50 AM
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| | A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Google offers the ability to create custom search engines that limit the search to certain web sites on specific topics.
I put together one that searches EA and Epinions.com (I can add more Epinions-related sites too. Just give me urls)
The link is : Google Co-op - Custom Search Engine
This might come in handy when looking up some Epinions member or for a certain review.
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11-07-2006, 09:58 AM
|  | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Amy - that is REALLY cool!!!
And, Folks - this may be a GREAT tool for when SantaWorm comes to town! |
11-07-2006, 09:48 PM
|  | Mom of the Four Men | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Canada, sort of
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
OMG! Amy, that's amazing. I can't wait to play with it!  : |
11-12-2006, 05:31 PM
|  | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
I needed this today and forgot to bookmark it. Added it to my toolbar now.  |
11-13-2006, 11:11 AM
|  | Rockin', Rollin', Ritin' | | Join Date: Jul 2000
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Personally, I don't think that what's written on message boards should be available on search engines. Period.
It creeps me out.
And since I've learned that everything I write is part of a huge paper trail I've been much more circumspect in what I write, and feel as if I am a little bit less authentic because of it.
So, Amy, while I appreciate the hard work you do for this board, I don't appreciate the work you have done to make whatever we say more accessible to Big Brother...
Sorry. |
11-13-2006, 11:15 AM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Frazz, absolutely everything that you type online is searched unless you belong to a private board, and since EA is a showpiece for Amy's paid gig doing support, it's unfair to expect it to be private.
There are ways to protect your anonymity online that keeps the real you separate from the online you. Which is why you might find a HUGE pile of stuff for pippadaisy or pippa but if you search my real name, I don't even exist.
In order to have total online anonymity, you need an unlisted phone number and no references anywhere to your real name. Aside from that, you'd probably be surprised where you'll turn up, and online forums under a pseudonym are the least of that problem. |
11-13-2006, 11:25 AM
|  | Epinions Members | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Granite State
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Ditto what Pippa said, Fraz. |
11-13-2006, 11:32 AM
| | Rockin', Rollin', Ritin' | | Join Date: Jul 2000
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
And yes, I have taken steps to do all those things. Except for the unlisted number. |
11-13-2006, 11:46 AM
|  | In Spanish, I'm Marijuana | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Lawn-Guy-Land, NY
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Even then your name is part of public record on various documents, such as real estate sales and the like. My name's been in the newspaper and the paper's online version. Hubby's been in the records of public school board meetings when they made personnel decisions. All you can do is try not to give out enough info to link the real name to the online pseudonym - or give up being online altogether (but you still can't block the public record stuff).
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono
We need a president who puts Barney Smith before Smith Barney. ~ Indiana resident and blue-collar worker Barney Smith |
11-13-2006, 12:15 PM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
That's where the hyphen helps.
I can't even find myself on our real estate records. It's INSANE! |
11-13-2006, 01:24 PM
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Quote: |
And since I've learned that everything I write is part of a huge paper trail I've been much more circumspect in what I write, and feel as if I am a little bit less authentic because of it.
| My first experience with the internet was with a dial-in bulletin board. I used my name (first + last) as my username, and never thought twice about it. It was a small board, with maybe 100 people, and it was local.
After several years, the board owners (a local alternative newspaper) put the board up on the then-blossoming internet. There was a huge protest. I freaked -- this was a free-wheeling board, and some of the thread titles, which popped up on a search engine search of my name, were outrageous, not the sort of thing I wanted associated with my name to the world at large. So for the first time, I adopted an alias.
Moving the board to the web eventually killed it. And that was pretty much the end of the chance to write on boards while having one's privacy protected from those who weren't board members.
Since then, I've felt very self-conscious about the open nature of the internet. I do have personal info, address and phone number, online under my name, and I can't do anything about that, but what I try and do is to keep my casual writing -- writing on boards including EA, on blogs, on writing sites including Epinions -- separate from my name, so that someone who read one couldn't trace it back to the other. It's difficult. I'm involved in enough fairly quirky things that I think that if I were specific about what I do, and at the same time signed my posts with my first name, which isn't a very common name, someone who knew me might recognize me right away. But it's hard to stay general about personal stuff, especially in situations where that type of sharing seems to be the norm. Then I feel as if I'm coming off as aloof.
I've also gotten into the habit of using different names for different online purposes, which gets a little confusing, especially when sites want you to publicize your stuff by pointing to it from your other online places, or when I do things that are related that I would like to cross-reference. I'm getting tempted to just chuck it all and start afresh, using my real name again just as I did in the beginning, but this time showing a more formal public face. I don't know -- I like letting loose on the internet, but it's starting to feel like maybe too much trouble.  |
11-13-2006, 02:43 PM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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There are folks in the Barbie community who know me only as pippa. No idea I have a real name, and I met some of them in person at the Barbie Convention in Atlanta some years back.
And ask Cindy what happens when I call and give my real name.  |
11-13-2006, 02:47 PM
| | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
you're a member of a barbie community..... |
11-13-2006, 02:52 PM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
LOL.
Haven't kept up with it much, but yes... I used to have one of the biggest Barbie collecting web sites online before I had the kids. |
11-13-2006, 02:54 PM
| | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Quote: pippadaisy said
 LOL.
Haven't kept up with it much, but yes... I used to have one of the biggest Barbie collecting web sites online before I had the kids. |
I didn't know you were a Barbie collector! |
11-13-2006, 02:55 PM
| | thread-killa | | Join Date: Dec 2000
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
You don't want to know how many I have.
Custom dolls... little playsets... Ken with the cock ring... |
11-13-2006, 02:57 PM
| | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Quote: pippadaisy said
... Ken with the cock ring... | wasn't familiar with that one.
And I'm guessing that Beanie and Butter aren't allowed to play with them? |
11-13-2006, 02:59 PM
| | In Spanish, I'm Marijuana | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Lawn-Guy-Land, NY
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
I so did not need that visual.
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to saved 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono
We need a president who puts Barney Smith before Smith Barney. ~ Indiana resident and blue-collar worker Barney Smith |
11-13-2006, 03:01 PM
| | Hot and Juicy | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: off campus
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I'm sure its a rooster. Ken had no genitalia.
At least I didn't think so....I never had a Ken doll. |
11-13-2006, 05:09 PM
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| | Re A Search Engine for Epinions Addicts (or Former Addicts) | |
Somehow, "Pippa" and "Barbie" just do not belong in the same sentence.
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11-13-2006, 05:35 PM
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