Why did my journal show up on Google?

I am new to MedHelp, member since 07/17/09. I did my first journal entry on 07/24 this past Friday, I had an TIA. I was doing research on TIA's, and to my shock I found my journal entry on Google ! Has this happened to any of you? All replies would be appreciated.

[jdwithhcv]

I have seen MH threads come up on google when I researched various topics.  Its a small internet, after all!

Welcome to MedHelp.  Hope you are feeling better by now.

jd

[Andiamo1]

Your journal and posts are available to google.  Just don't put any personal information in your posts and it shouldn't be a problem.  No one can find your identity.

[Fmulder]

Obviously someone copied and pasted it, Not an uncommon thing!

[Andiamo1]

Google has web crawlers that search the entire web, building indexes as it does that.  No one has to copy anything.  Google will find it, build a link to the original and then index it.  When you search on anything Google will return only the link.  No copies are necessary.

Anyone can read medhelp without an ID; you only need an ID when you post.