Searching Profile Pages

January 5, 2006 5:54 PM

Is there a way to search user profile pages for certain words? I was trying to add a 'MetaGame' keyword to my page for use by geekily Mefites to match up in online games (MMORPGs, Live!, Nintendo Wifi, etc) for some constructive combat from the safety of our Mom's basement.

Am I missing something obvious, or is the a pony that could be coaxed to life?
posted by robocop is bleeding to Feature Requests at 5:54 PM (10 comments total)

I doubt it, since the robots.txt disallows spidering of the user pages and there's no internal search engine any more.
posted by fvw at 6:01 PM on January 5, 2006

Tags for user profiles?
posted by grouse at 6:14 PM on January 5, 2006

Tags/interests would be cool, if a bit LJian.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:20 PM on January 5, 2006

I would actually enjoy some kind of profile tagging or interest/groups system.
posted by loquacious at 8:17 PM on January 5, 2006

oooh, I should do tags on profiles, but let other members add to it. It could be some sweet, sweet chaos.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:23 PM on January 5, 2006

Heh, I think the 'wanker' tag would be used quite a lot.
posted by sebas at 12:11 AM on January 6, 2006

Better yet, make it so that only other members could tag a profile.
posted by oddman at 10:30 AM on January 6, 2006

Why aren't profiles spidered anyway?
posted by phearlez at 10:35 AM on January 6, 2006

It could be some sweet, sweet chaos.

Oh yeah!
posted by grouse at 3:34 PM on January 6, 2006

Why aren't profiles spidered anyway?

Somewhere in the archives of MetaTalk, everyone wanted a bit of privacy from Google and requested it en masse.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:57 PM on January 7, 2006