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12-09-2009, 03:28 PM
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Googled for your ritual?
Has anyone else out there ever picked a small phrase from one of your rituals and googled it just to make sure that no one had published it online?
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12-09-2009, 03:33 PM
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Yep and no one has. Hopefully no one ever will.
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12-09-2009, 03:39 PM
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Haha, yes I have. I've found some things, but only because I knew what I was looking for, they weren't anything terribly important either.
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12-09-2009, 03:59 PM
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I just did. Nothing related to the sorority came up though.
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12-10-2009, 05:50 PM
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I just did. Nothing related to the sorority came up though.
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unfortunately, our entire ritual is on the internet.
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12-11-2009, 02:12 AM
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I actually received an e-mail from HQ regarding this issue earlier in the semester. It was pretty much along the lines of: "We don't even want to dignify this with a response, but since so many people have brought it to our attention we'll briefly address the issue. If you find fraternity and sorority Rituals online please respect the organization and do not read them. If you find our own secrets, or anyone's, just ignore them. Non members will never fully understand our values, so don't even bother validating this with a response."
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I think the proper thing to do is if you do find such info, to let a moderator or someone you know in that organization that the info is out there. Or, even email the HQ yourself. I think it's the kind thing to do. I know that I would want someone stumbling onto mine to let someone in authority know.
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Also excellent advice.
Someone once posted part of our ritual online, but it was so bastardized that the absolutes and meaning were completely lost. There was a fraternity guy at my school who would pressure women to tell him at least their handshake - and then he'd pass it on to anyone who wanted to hear it. I wouldn't want that type of person anywhere near my GLO!!!
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12-09-2009, 04:02 PM
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Ha, I have also. There's one little tiny part of ours that pops up, but like Gusteau, you'd have to specifically know what words to search for it to pop up. Nothing pops up if you just type "Alpha Xi Delta Ritual", so I'd imagine that anyone trying to figure it out would have a pretty tough time.
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12-09-2009, 04:08 PM
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^^Exactly. As an informed searcher you can turn something up, but if you type in, for example, "Delta Chi Secret Motto" you'll get a bunch of funny wrong answers, if anything.
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12-09-2009, 04:16 PM
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I've done that.
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12-09-2009, 04:20 PM
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I've found the full text of several rituals posted online.
Won't say where, nor am I sure the page is indexed by Google.
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12-09-2009, 04:27 PM
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Does Google (or any search engine for that matter) save the search queries?
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12-09-2009, 04:55 PM
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Does Google (or any search engine for that matter) save the search queries?
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Yes, you can go back and look at your own, *but* you have to be signed in to google and you can clear the queries...
OTOH, given that google doesn't know what fraternity I belong to, or that I am googling for a ritual, how much is really revealed if it sees someone googling "4 men who came together for the best of purposes".
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12-09-2009, 05:46 PM
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Yes, you can go back and look at your own, *but* you have to be signed in to google and you can clear the queries...
OTOH, given that google doesn't know what fraternity I belong to, or that I am googling for a ritual, how much is really revealed if it sees someone googling "4 men who came together for the best of purposes".
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I guess it depends on the search results? I recall hearing somewhere that a particular search engine saves queries and results and uses them to find better matches. I guess if it's already on the internet there's not a whole lot I can do about it, but I don't want to help a search engine perfect its methods of finding my (hell, anyone else's) ritual.
Then again, I am kinda paranoid 
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12-09-2009, 05:47 PM
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One of the first things that comes up for me is a reminder of <unsavory anthrax-toting characters>, and the whole taco incident. *shudder* What a great thing to be tied to any part of our org, let alone to ritual.
I have googled for ritual before and found bits & pieces (much false, some true) but not the full book. Kevin, I've either seen the same site or know of another.
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12-09-2009, 06:11 PM
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lol. ours is on wikipedia.
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