I just typed my name into Google - to see if anything came up. Something did come up - a letter I wrote to a newspaper three years ago. How can letters you write to a newspaper end up as an item in a search engine?
2007-06-20 00:13:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet ➔ Other - Internet
Maybe you have google desktop and allowed it to index your harddrive. When you run a search it will find everything on your computer. (Yes, even that man on horse porn.)
2007-06-20 00:16:41 · answer #1 · answered by John S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The newspaper that printed the letter probably has an online edition. As soon as your letter got posted online, it is fair game for a search engine listing.
2007-06-20 00:22:30 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many newspapers have virtual versions AND Google has also been scanning entire libraries from the library of Congress to several Universities and all of their contents as part of a new project. That includes their newspaper collections.
This has been a highly contested issue and copyright concern but they went ahead and did it anyway, Many authors are concerned about their work.
Following is a copy and paste from Princeton review:
Princeton U. Library Latest to Join Google Scan Plan
Google has signed another university library to participate in its library scan plan, this week announcing an agreement with the Princeton University Libraries to digitize roughly one million books. Under the agreement, Princeton will initially supply only public domain books over the "next six years," which it says will be indexed and searchable on the web and freely available for download. (Private universities, because they have fewer protections, have been more wary than public ones in testing the limits of copyright laws.) Princeton University Librarian Karin Trainer said joining Google Book Search will "make it easier for Princeton students and faculty to do research" and would also allow Princeton to "share our collection with researchers worldwide."
2007-06-20 00:16:34 · answer #3 · answered by tabulator32 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Somebody put it online. What kind of website was it on? Whoever put it online without you knowing about it can get into trouble, if you don't want it there. But perhaps they only found it interesting and wished to share it with people for some reason.
If it's online, it can be searched for with any search engine (although certain ones tend to show more of certain categories...no names mentioned).
2007-06-20 00:16:26 · answer #4 · answered by Nénuphar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And a Google Mars. Get with the times.
2016-04-01 07:15:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a search engine is only a giant Algorythym, it searches in binary usually to find any relavant data substring on the text you enter, so apparently you hd this on the net someplace sometime...
2007-06-20 00:16:43 · answer #6 · answered by The Thinker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is a good search engine
2007-06-20 00:29:11 · answer #7 · answered by mahir ahmed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, could be, maybe, might be the reason, that
YOUR NAME WAS ON IT!
2007-06-20 00:21:16 · answer #8 · answered by kevrigger 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
go figure
2007-06-20 00:16:42 · answer #9 · answered by Ninad S 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋