Flickr has added a clever feature that lets you hide any image from public searches. Simply look for the link next to the other metadata for your image. You can't do this in batch editing mode yet, just on an image by image basis.
It's unclear if this means the image will be hidden from Web search engines as well as Flickr network queries. Still, it's nice to have an image that you want to keep public just not searchable.
This is an option all of the social networks, media sharing and blog publishing platforms should all have. Flickr's corporate cousin, del.icio.us, has a similar private bookmarking feature. Vox gives you the option to decide who sees your blog posts. But I haven't seen anyone add search opt-out.
Tags: vox, flickr, del.icio.us, privacy
