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Jörg Seidel started following the idea "Add People" in Spock.

Jörg Seidel marked one of catgofire's replies in Spock as useful. catgofire replied to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you.". Jörg Seidel and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Jörg Seidel marked one of I Love Spock's replies in Spock as useful. I Love Spock replied to the question "Why aren't Personal News Pages also RSS Feeds? Seems like a natural.".

Jörg Seidel replied on February 20, 2008 20:32 to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you." in Spock:

While that is a feature that Spock could, maybe should, consider to implement, I doubt that one can remove their own search results from all the search engines available. The only way to hide your information from unwanted eyes is to restrict access to it's source. In the cases mentioned in the thread that would be Facebook.

Spock just informs you that there is freely available information on you in the web - visible for all. Don't beat the messenger if you don't like the message.

Jörg Seidel marked one of catgofire's replies in Spock as useful. catgofire replied to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you.". Jörg Seidel and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Jörg Seidel replied on February 19, 2008 23:30 to the idea "Can't withdraw a vote" in Spock:

I love Spock,

thank you for your explanation. But the trouble is that I can not select the voting triangle as I can not see the tag. It's offscreen as tag clouds are limited in size.

Jörg Seidel replied on February 19, 2008 22:59 to the question "Why do some people have results but no entries?" in Spock:

I never saw such profiles. Could you please provide a link. I'd like to look at it.

Michael Tabolsky's reply to "Do you support foreign characters or + signs in email addresses?" was just promoted to the most useful! Jörg Seidel and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

The e-mail addresses standard is defined here :http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822.
It is not allowed to use international characters from ASCII table as well as some others.
Generally:
According to RFC 2822, the local-part of the address may use any of these ASCII characters:
* Uppercase and lowercase letters
* The digits 0 through 9
* The characters ! # $ % * / ? | ^ { } ` ~ & ' + - = _
* The character . provided that it is not the first nor last character in the local-part, nor may it appear two or more times consecutively.

Jörg Seidel shared an idea in Spock on February 18, 2008 21:30:

Can't withdraw a vote

I'd like to have the possibility to withdraw a vote from the "Your Contributions" page. I recently added accidentally a wrong tag but could not remove my vote as it was "offscreen" in the tag list.

Jörg Seidel replied on February 18, 2008 19:54 to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you." in Spock:

As far as I know Spock does not collect data by means of some Facebook apps. It just collects publicly available information like anyone could do with access to the searched web site.

Jörg Seidel marked one of Andrew O'Leary's replies in Spock as useful. Andrew O'Leary replied to the problem "The Bicycling Guitarist not listed".

Jörg Seidel replied on February 13, 2008 10:42 to the problem "I don't know how you got informations from facebook but my name and pictures are for facebook use only, I don't want them to be seen by everybody on the web, it's private. Please remove me from spoke as soon as possible. Thank you." in Spock:

Spock is more a search engine than a community. In contrast to other search engines it gives you the control on your search result. I suggest to everyone to register to be notified when information on you is published and have the possibility to remove or correct it. Google does not offer you this choice.

The trouble is. Even if Spock removes your profile now there is no guarantee that it will not be indexed again. So having control on your search results by registering is the solution I'd advice.

Jörg Seidel replied on February 13, 2008 10:27 to the problem "Adding web site to a profile removes Googles search results" in Spock:

Problem solved with latested deploy. Thanks!

Jörg Seidel reported a problem in Spock on February 12, 2008 10:28:

Adding web site to a profile removes Googles search results

when looking at a profiles web site list at the bottom there is a list of additional search results by google. This list disappears if I vote on a result of it. Usability is reduced by it, as I often vote on more than one web page

Jay Bhatti's reply to "Have any famous people claimed their search results yet?" was just promoted to the most useful! Jörg Seidel and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Ya - a lot of famous people claim their Spock search result everyday. A few of them include:

Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Ron Paul
Joe Biden
Rudy Guilliani
Bill Richardson
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
John Edwards
Chris Dodd
John McCain
Duncan Hunter
Fred Thompson
NYC Michael Bloomberg
Michael Dukakis
Former LA Mayor Jim Hahn
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger
NY Representative Mike Gianaris
NY City Councilmember Peter Vallone, Jr.
NY City Councilmember Eric Gioia
State Senator Joe Dunn

Jörg Seidel replied on January 21, 2008 15:54 to the problem "Tag missmatch between profile page and tag list" in Spock:

Problem dissapeared by now.

Jörg Seidel marked one of Maia's replies in Spock as useful. Maia replied to the question "How do I remove cached information?".

Jörg Seidel reported a problem in Spock on January 13, 2008 19:56:

Tag missmatch between profile page and tag list

On the profile

http://www.spock.com/do/profiles/inde...

appear more tags (recently added by me) than on the tags page.

http://www.spock.com/do/user_taggings...

looks like some kind of cache is not working properly here.

Jörg Seidel replied on January 03, 2008 21:42 to the question "How do I remove a duplicate web link?" in Spock:

Kathy,

Thank you for clarifying. I suggest not using the "No" vote, but instead using the "Remove Vote" option. As the second URL is apparently an Spock object of it's own it will be deleted if there is no vote on it. Voting "No" might even keep it alive though off-screen. Not sure about that one, but a small test indicated the object might stay alive even if there are only "No" votes on it as long there is a vote at all.

I don't think that both links will disappear as they constitute two independent database objects incidentally filled with the same content.

Left open is the question if the links help in debugging how this happened in the first place. Spock team?

Jörg Seidel replied on January 03, 2008 21:17 to the question "How do I remove a duplicate web link?" in Spock:

Hi Kathy,

you can remove your vote on the lower photrade link. As you are the only voter this will remove the URL.

@Spock: How could that happen? Adding duplicates is usually treated as voting "YES" on the existing URL