<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you very much, that makes sense.<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 6, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Tom Legare wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P><FONT size="2">Google does not search all sites on the web.... only those sites that have</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">paid extra with their hosting package to be searchable by Google. I have a</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">family web site, for example, that I specifically did not want found by</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Google. The money I saved was more than the monthly cost of the web site</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">itself. </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Tom </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">-------Original Message------- </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">From: <A href="mailto:gooddog@interlync.com">gooddog@interlync.com</A> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Date: 08/06/06 15:33:16 </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">To: A place to discuss Apple's iBook computers. </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Subject: [iBook] OFF TOPIC: web site question </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Is it possible for a web site to make their text unsearchable </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">somehow? I ask because I stumbled across a web site with a friend's </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">name and a quote from them, but when I searched on google using text </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">from the quote and their name, nothing came up at all. I tried again </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">using the subject of the website and the person's name, but nothing </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">came up. Is there a way to look at the code to see what is going on? </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Is this a usual practice? </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"> </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">Thanks in advance. </FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">_______________________________________________</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2">iBook mailing list</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"><A href="mailto:iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">iBook@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</A></FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"><A href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook" target="_blank">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook</A></FONT> </P><P><FONT size="2">Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff:</FONT> <BR><FONT size="2"> <A href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984" target="_blank">http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984</A></FONT> </P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>