Google is a search engine that indexes any and every page/site that is publicly available, and Multiply is no exception. Every public page on Multiply -- the ones posted for 'Everyone' or that can be accessed by any person even if not logged in to a Multiply account -- will be indexed by Google and will appear in the search results if relevant.

Multiply takes advantage of this in its own Search feature (the one in the top navigation bar): the results are retrieved by Google, who also 'sponsors' the search, generating revenue for Multiply. It's simpler, cheaper and faster than having it's own search engine and also helps Multiply earn some money. And you can rest calm knowing that only your public posts will appear in the results.

But Google takes some times to index new pages, so if you publish a new post today, wait a couple of days so it will appear in the search results (both here and on the 'generic' Google page). In the mean time, using tags is a great way to organize and easily retrieve your posts.


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From the Multiply Staff Blog! Tags, Clouds, & Video Settings.

http://multiply.multiply.com/journal/item/158

Tags are just key words or phrases you can use to identify your posts, so at any time you can easily display everything you've shared about a certain topic. You can add tags to anything you share on Multiply - a photo album, video, blog, whatever. For example, if you add the tag "Florida" to photo album, then whenever you want to see everything you've posted about Florida, you'll be able to click on that tag on your Home page to see that photo album and anything else you've tagged with "Florida". You can add as many tags to your posts as you'd like. When you visit someone's Multiply site, you'll see all of their tags listed. Click on a tag to see everything that person has shared about that particular topic. The "Popular Tags" box on the message board will show you the most common tags being used by people in your network.

All of the above information has been taken directly from the Multiply FAQ page.

If you look just beneath this text, you'll notice the word "tags" in gray and to the right of it will be the same word again in blue. (I used "tags" as the tag for this post, since it's about tags. Dizzying isn't it?) If you click on that blue word "tags" you'll be taken to a page that shows all of the posts in this group that have been tagged with that same word.

If you're making a post, at the bottom of the box where you enter your text there will be that word "tags" again with a box to the right of it that you can enter the tags. Just beneath that it says, "Click to insert:" and all of tags that have been used so far in that group (or in your site) will be listed there. This is a handy way to make sure you use the same tags over and over again, rather than having several tags that mean the same thing (like: cat, kitty, kitty cat) which makes tagging less effective.

Even more on tags here.