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Apr 12

This is pretty crazy.

If you place a form on your web site Google can now enter any possible combination of information, radio button choices, checkboxes, etc., and index the results that come back for the form. They call this accessing the ‘Deep Web’, that part of the web that, until now, could only be accessed by a human entering information. It is deep in the sense that they now index all the possible underlying data in an online database that is not protected by a security layer (at least that’s how I read it).

Implications? Optimize those forms and your results pages and make sure they return relevant results or you might get purged.

And, BTW, dump your Microsoft and Yahoo stock- they are not even on the same planet with these guys.

One Response to “The Deep Web: Google now crawls all possible results of entering data in forms”

  1. damir Says:

    Interesting post - I tought this was being done by google as I have experimented whith some of my webpages.

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