Okay, I don’t know how I feel about this but these screenshots I took are just creepy. [Screenshot_20210516-205614_Brave] [Screenshot_20210516-205609_Brave] [Screenshot_20210516-205557_Brave] [Screenshot_20210516-205551_Brave] [Screenshot_20210516-205446_Brave] [Screenshot_20210516-205433_Bra…

Somewhere there is a glitch. If I search for a taxon, Google offers me iSpot results first. And only afterwards gets to iNaturalist. The search engines seem to be obstructed from iNat? Or haven’t managed to spider thru much yet?

That is just your site cookies. If you go into incognito mode it will likely show you other things. Because you used to use iSpot (or still use, idk), Google remembers that and shows you results from it as high priority. [image] marina_gorbunova: Do you know why it doesn’t show any photos from …

Fact is, there’s not that much to scroll, both mine and luffy inca are no more than 10 lines (and we have to esclude all incas and cake photos from the latter and some mercedes add and other weird stuff from mine, lol), while you’d think it would be associated with tons of photos and pics from websi…

No. I delete cookies every 2 to 4 weeks. Haven’t been near iSpot for years, since South Africa moved to iNat. Cookies would / should tell Google I spend hours on iNat every day, and take me back there as a FIRST choice. But the search engine is geared to answering people’s queries - how do I grow m…

Interesting… I guess iSpot probably adds comment and description information into the search engine information, so it’s easier to find an answer to a question rather than just an image.

but there for example if I google Pyrrharctia isabella I do get iNat on the lower part of the first page. But the spider is picking up - Wikipedia first which is usual. The iNat entries however are for the taxon, and a relevant project. Not individual obs, which must come back to search engine …

Sorry - one more - this - how does Google - fascinates me. Searching for images - this is the top result (also ranked first within iNat) Probably because of the ‘Gerald’ discussion showing active engagement. I hope you will allow the active link - which is about - iNat does accept art work https…

So what. I have perhaps thousands of iNat and eBird findings on the internet from my garden. It would be child’s play to locate me. What’s the problem … I really do not understand the paranoia about this. Drop round and ask about my interesting spiders and unusual birds - happy to chat.

YMMD but others do have issues with their home address being exposed https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/22/world-expert-in-scientific-misconduct-faces-legal-action-for-challenging-integrity-of-hydroxychloroquine-study

But it just says don’t mess up with goverment, they’ll find you anyway?

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juliereid May 22, 2021, 5:24pm 38

If you like your privacy try using duckduckgo.com for searches instead of Google. Results are similar but they don’t track you, don’t follow you with ads, and don’t store your personal information.

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