Google Crawls The Deep Web

mikkl666 writes "In their official blog, Google announces that they are experimenting with technologies to index the Deep Web, i.e. the sites hidden behind forms, in order to be 'the gateway to large volumes of data beyond the normal scope of search engines'. For that purpose, the engine tries to automatically get past the forms: 'For text boxes, our computers automatically choose words from the site that has the form; for select menus, check boxes, and radio buttons on the form, we choose from among the values of the HTML'. Nevertheless, directions like 'nofollow' and 'noindex' are still respected, so sites can still be excluded from this type of search.'"

Comments

Re:Just think!

[Ariven]

I remember an article while back where someone had cut/pasted some articles from one section of their site to another.. and as a result had edit and delete links in the live content instead of on their internal web interface.

And a search engine (I think it was google) crawled the site, hit the delete links and deleted all the pages of the site. At that time it was stated that any link that performs an action, such as delete, should be a post, via form so that search engines wouldnt do that very thing..

And now, they are gonna start submitting forms? the fallout is gonna be entertaining.