so do I
I would prefer, most of all, an in-house search engine coupled with complete invisibility of this site to all "outside" searches. I doubt I'll get that.
Why not? If Google can't get past the front page because the earlier button is a script, than all that must be done to keep Google out is make all the links scripts. Than let Robert and Justin work out an internal search engine. I agree I would be much more comfortable with this scenario. The only side effect is we would not generate traffic from outside the zone that Google currently feeds us with. A case in point was the thread I started called Those Sneaky Bastards in which I was asking for help because I couldn't find a solution by googling. Within a day Google had spidered the site and 3 or 4 people looking for the same solution came together on Habitablezone and we solved it. So there are some side effects to not being googled. I'd like to see more zoners weigh in on this as well.
-Steve G.