Google - All Knowing, All Seeing

Posted By: leelee700 () Posted On: 2007-Jan-21 05:12
just wanted to let everyone know that Google has now become omnipotent........... we're developing a completely new website, no links to it yet, not final, but we found it in Google already. how did Google know?

Posted By: Hampstead () Posted On: 2007-Jan-21 09:19
Did you check the site in your browser with the Google toolbar installed?

Posted By: Curt () Posted On: 2007-Jan-23 12:33
Yeah that google toolbar sure does stuff that users don't quite realize it does.

Posted By: g1smd (Staff) Posted On: 2007-Jan-23 21:26
Various people speaking for Google strenuously deny that they use Toolbar data like this...

Posted By: bhartzer (Staff) Posted On: 2007-Jan-23 21:53
how did Google know? Google immediately crawls new domains within about 24 hours of them being registered...they're a domain registrar, so they have the data.

Posted By: Hampstead () Posted On: 2007-Jan-23 23:05
I've seen indexing happen when a site is hosted on a test server and the index page is not there thus exposing the file tree.

Posted By: Curt () Posted On: 2007-Jan-24 11:27
bhartzer, are you saying that google spiders any site that has been registered or at least it will try to find it for spidering purposes? How do you know about that? I know that google serves as it's own registrar, but didn't think that google used that data to find sites.