Walter Soldierer’s Blog

I just saw a new privacy checkbox in my Facebook account settings:

[ ] Allow my public search listing to be indexed by external search engines (ex. Google, Yahoo, MSN)

In about 2 weeks, public profile information (only image and name) will be spiderable. A good idea. Most social networking sites already allow search engines to list their user’s public profile pages. This is a logical next step now that anyone can seach people on Facebook without having to sign up first . More info is available on the Facebook blog.

The soldierer.com web site is hosted on a hostmonster.com web server. I decided to try Hostmonster because I read a couple positive experiences on the web. Three weeks after opening the account I have to agree to everything I read and give them a positive review, too.

Hostmonster provides a powerful LAMP hosting environment with high quality services at a very competitive price.

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