Is Google Filling in Search Forms?
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Hi Mozers,
Is it true that Google will fill in search forms and thus generate potentially thousands of pages by itself?
We have a spike in number of pages indexed and it corresponds with the time we added an advanced search form to the site...
Thanks for the advice!
Yael
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Very helpful, thanks! Yael
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Hi,
They cannot, but a competitor can. That's why most of the times you want to make sure that search pages are excluded from a search engines crawlers to avoid issues like this.
Martijn.
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