lj indexing

[baratron]

Does anyone use Google to index their journal? I've been searching for several old posts today, and found Google universally useless. Like, for example, I'm sure I once made a post entitled "100 random things/facts about me", but can I find it? I guess it must've been friends-only, although I can't think why.

Amusingly, searching for keyword "random" on site:baratron.livejournal.com returns 5 pages of links. Keyword "me" returns a mere 8 pages of links - obviously, I am less narcissistic than I thought ;) Here is an old journal entry that made me laugh uproariously.

Anyway, yes, so: if you index your journal, how do you do it? Have you downloaded the whole thing to your computer & then search/grep it locally? Or using some other method?

Comments

[kiya]

The closest I come to indexing is the fact that I've got all the comments I received and a good chunk of the ones i've posted in a file, and I grep that when looking for things. :P

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I save all entries by month using the backup tool, then grep them locally. I haven't wanted comments enough to invent a solution for them.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

I keep all my comment emails and also use nmc's ljmirror utility to download m journal, and grep each when I want to find something.

[johnckirk.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to find any old blog entries on Google, but it looks like this may change soon. In the meantime, I either add things as memories or copy them over to my main website.