https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:56:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332705 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:42:16 +0000 Lisa 332705@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Greg! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332621 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:21:04 +0000 Kate 332621@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Greg, thanks for making the change, I appreciate it.</p> <p>I'm fine with having an "online presence" - if you search for my name you can find a lot of information about me, my achievements, my work, and even a couple pictures of me. I'm certainly not naive about the lack of privacy on the internet, and I am discerning about what information I make public.</p> <p>Like Mo, I'm fine with people going on YLF and looking at pictures of me, using my real first name, etc. No matter how popular YLF becomes, the chances of my students or colleagues coming on YLF, finding me, and then thinking less of me (since they chose to visit YLF) is VERY slim. It's people finding my pictures by searching for other things through google (or similar engines) that makes me uneasy. </p> <p>Anyway, I hope that this thread has been helpful for some people. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332432 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:05:49 +0000 Elly 332432@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is why I don't use my full name, but rather a nickname. I googled both and came up with a bunch of buxom asian women for my YLF name, so I don't think that should be an issue. On the other hand, I did find a myspace account a friend had set up when I was 17 because she insisted I needed social networking. It was never finished, but there are a few pictures of me and her on there. Other than that there are some really bad pictures of me at a university event that the college didn't ask if they could post on the internet with some false info attached. </p> <p>When I Google my real name I usually only have a few things to sort through, because as far as we can tell, I am the only one that uses that name on the internet or that banks in the U.S.! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332350 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:17:51 +0000 Lynne 332350@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>thanks, Greg! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332327 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:35:33 +0000 Polly (thunalata) 332327@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've just googled 'thunalata images' and have now hidden the few images of me that came up BUT it was a lovely thing to do as all sorts of lovely pics of Angie and YLFers popped up. So fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332273 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:33:01 +0000 Polly (thunalata) 332273@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I didn't know you could do that, Greg, thanks!</p> <p>Carole, when you upload the pictures to flickr there's a privacy setting, who you make your photos available to. I always upload things so that only I can see them and then you can make them available to other people via a guest pass.</p> <p>Try uploading something and read everything on the screen as you do it and I'm sure you'll find it, or someone more techno will give more detailed instructions. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332269 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:24:58 +0000 Carole 332269@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is probably a dumb question, but how do you make your pictures private in flickr or photobucket? I just load all my pictures up without a thought to that-yikes! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332231 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:55:51 +0000 MsMary 332231@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Greg, you are so awesome! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332230 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:55:41 +0000 MsMaven 332230@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the info, Kate. I just checked and several pictures I had left open to the public on Flickr showed up on Google. They were for a post last year and I forgot to make them private again. Yikes--at least they weren't on the first page--and I did make them private, but they still show up. I guess it takes time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332207 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:17:56 +0000 Mo 332207@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332204 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:13:24 +0000 Greg 332204@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>There is a way that I can make the images off limits to search engines, which I just did. I was already using this to keep profile pages off the search engines and extending it to the images was a simple thing to do.</p> <p>This should prevent images from appearing in Google image search (or Yahoo or Bing image search). It might take a while for this change to impact them.</p> <p>Note that the actual post (i.e. the text you posted with the picture) itself might still appear in the normal search results, so if you would like to make the picture off limits then you should also use the "Hide Photo" option.</p> <p>Note also that while the big search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo will honor the setting that I used to make the photos off limits, there may be other things out there on the web that don't. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332190 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:54:16 +0000 Mo 332190@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the heads up (hee hee). I sometimes go headless and sometimes don't. I don't mind folks coming here but somehow being part of the Google search weirds me out a little more. Silly, I know. So I put up my namesake's movie poster instead for a while. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332171 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:15:27 +0000 Angie 332171@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm not surprised at all, Kate. It's just how Polly puts it. But Greg will feed back too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332138 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:46:38 +0000 Kappy 332138@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, that's precisely why ALL my photos are headless!! This is also an "open" forum where anyone can view all pictures even if they aren't registered. I also don't post any pictures of my kids on the internet anywhere (except at a password protected photo site for relatives). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332118 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:36:04 +0000 Polly (thunalata) 332118@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Louise you're very good! I'm slightly more paranoid and private, silly really, especially as the internet is not private at all! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332109 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:32:26 +0000 Louise 332109@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kate I've come across that before, oops I probably should have mentioned it sooner!<br /> I'm happy to leave my photos up as a source of reference for others. I guess if someone comes across a photo through Google it's probably because they are interested in fashion and we may be helping people to find YLF? x </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332095 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:46:40 +0000 Polly (thunalata) 332095@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think if it's 'out there' it's 'out there'. I tend to hide my photos after about a week, but I think that even that may not be 100% reliable in terms of Internet searches (like you sometimes get a link to a page that doesn't exist any more). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332080 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:16:29 +0000 anne 332080@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ooh, Scary! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/pictures-posted-on-ylf-show-up-in-google-image-search#post-332078 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:06:55 +0000 Kate 332078@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just did a google image search and managed to find a picture of myself that I posted on YLF!!!</p> <p>Greg? Angie? Is there anything we can do to prevent this? I think I'm off to hide a whole lot of the pictures I posted. I had no idea that they would show up in image searches, though I guess I should have known better since nothing on the internet is private. </p>