Now that I had had this blog (http://softwarejourney.blogspot.com/) for a few weeks, I wondered if Google, the all-knowing web genie, had any knowledge of my humble existence. For your information, blogger.com, the host of my blog, is owned by Google (So, you would think that it was a given).
There are several ways to find out. The obvious is to go to Google, and type in some hopefully unique keywords. Well, the search came back negative. I was in denial mode.
How could I be sure? Google had some interesting, advanced features (otherwise known as hacks).
For instance, enter site:softwarejourney.blogspot.com into Google search. This particular search returns all pages that Google knew about that web site. In addition, you can use the site: parameter together with any keywords that you may have.
The search came back empty, confirming that Google had not detected my blog site yet. Sigh!
If you have any Web presence (a blog, a home page, a forum, etc)at all, you should run the hack against it, site:www.yourdomain.com. This lets you know what Google (and anybody for that matter who cares to find out) knows about you. You may be surprised about certain web pages or files that you did not know are available on the Web.
It is a privacy defense tool (used by you), but also a privacy enemy (used maliciously by someone else).
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