Google Toolbar submits pages you visit for indexing!

Discussion in 'Google' started by Corwin, Nov 22, 2009.

  1. #1
    I just discovered that, if you have Google Toolbar installed on a browser, every page you visit is reported to Google for indexing!

    I was looking at one of my websites and testing it for SQL injection. I created a NEW database-driven test page (without query strings). I tested it (using Firefox with Google Toolbar) with an apostrophe ' in different placed and it tested 200 O.K. I then immediately deleted the page and the URL from the database and then set a routine to log an error if a page has an apostrophe in the URL

    Well, a few minutes later, I noticed database access errors being logged, with the URL of the test page that I had created and then removed - including the apostrophe in the same places I had tested it!

    The crawler noted the following info:

    IP ADDRESS: 66.249.68.182 at crawl-66-249-68-182.googlebot.com
    HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mediapartners-Google


    The page existed for a total of two minutes.

    Now, the short-lived page also had database-generated AdSense ads on it, so maybe it was AdSense looking the page, too?

    Just a heads-up!
     
    Corwin, Nov 22, 2009 IP
  2. spice

    spice Active Member

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    Thanks for your input, if that is true it can be useful
     
    spice, Nov 22, 2009 IP