Susan, Mary, Cathy -- I've just finished looking into these new reports to determine what's going on. I have some good news and the bad news:
The bad news is that it seems that Google is far nosier with the Sphere than normal! For instance, Susan in your case, the code worked well on the first page of the thread, but it appears that when the thread grows and becomes multi-page, the second and following pages do not carry the code and as such get indexed. Mary, in your case, it seems that Google found your poem by using the Erato search function to find all your posts ... there was some of that with Susan as well in addition to the multi-page explanation. Cathy, you didn't provide any clue as to the thread you're referring to, but my guess is that it's one or both of the above reasons.
Now, the good news is that I've finished going through another round of Google restraining coding that should fix the above loopholes that Google is using:
- In the case of multi-page loophole, I now have a broad-based fix that should lock Google completely out of the workshop forums (Met, Non-Met, Deep-End and Translation,) and the extra good is that you don't even have to enter the protection code in these forums. Anything posted in any of them is now protected automatically! Sure, you can still use the protection code in any non-workshop forum where you find it necessary.
- To take care of the problem with Google nosily using the Erato search function to find posts from members and indexing them despite the protection, I've added code that should block Google from using the Erato search tools.
I'm pretty sure Google is fully contained now, but let me know if you find any other instance of Google finding any posts you made after this point in time in any of our workshop forum. And remember,
you no longer need to use the protection code for the workshop forums as listed earlier -- it's now automatic!
Cheers,
...Alex