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You really think google adds private emails to its public index? Get real.
by ctz 15y ago
You really think google adds private emails to its public index? Get real.
- angusgr 15y agoIf the URL is a publicly accessible webserver with no robots.txt telling them to stay off it, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets fed to the crawler.
- eli 15y agoGoogle can even index files listed in robots.txt (it just doesn't crawl them)
- andymurd 15y agoThe email wasn't indexed but (maybe) a link in the email was. Google honours robots.txt, X-Robots headers etc but everything else is fair game.
- rahoulb 15y agoThey scan my private emails to target advertising at me - why would they not follow links (as the link obviously denotes something I'm interested in)? And, as the others state, if it's not robots.txt denied then why not add it to the public index?