how do i make it so people can't look up my questions on google by knowing the name i use for this?

Answer 1

If people know the name you use, and you don't want them to look up your questions. Change your name on here, or register again with a different name, and don't tell them.

Answer 2

I long time ago, and, technically, still, USENET had a de-facto system whereby using a X-No-Archive header would keep your posts out of services like DejaNews (which morphed in Deja, then got bought by Google). Unfortunately, I know of no modern equivalent that lets individuals in a forum like this say to search engines "don't archive this." The web just doesn't work that way -- robot exclusion is done either at the page level, or at the server level with the robots.txt file.

Yahoo's robots.txt seems pretty liberal in what it allows. In addition, and I've been working with this recently, Yahoo makes Questions and Answers available to developers via an API. Google's removal guidelines state that they're not too keen on removing pages from their index, and, baring unusual circumstances, do so "at the request of the webmaster who is responsible for the page."

Short of creating a modern X-No-Archive for parts of a page under the control of a person and getting large companies like Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft, as well as at least a few of the major forum vendors to go along with it, it seems very improbable that you can keep posts on a site like this out of search results.

Edit: This assumes that you want to keep people from finding you under any current name, so that changing your name won't work. If you don't care about past names, then changing your name works, of course, as others have said.

Answer 3

There are several ways. But rather than create another Yahoo account, you can simply create another alias or public profile for your existing yahoo account.

First, click "My Account" near the top of your Answers Yahoo page. You'll be prompted to log in again. On the right panel, click "Edit/Create Profiles". On the next page, click "Create New Public Profile" and follow the instruction to complete the process.

Next, go back to your Answers Yahoo home page and click "My Q&A". Below your Picture, click "Edit My Info". Select the new profile you just created from the 1st drop-down box. Then click "Preview" button at the bottom. Finally click "OK".

From then on, everything you post will be under your new alias and no one will know who you used to be :) Good luck!

Answer 4

What name do you use for google then?

Answer 5

change your username in your profile. Should work, i think x

Answer 6

Is that a trick question?