Google Now Fills Out Forms

Crawls Results

One of the biggest search challenges has long been that the major search engines like Google cannot crawl material that can only be retrieved through the use of forms. Now Google is filling out those forms to obtain the information previously hidden.

Google says that for the past few months, it has been filling in forms on a “small number” of “high-quality” web sites to get back information. What words has it been entering into those forms? Words automatically selected that occur on the site, with check boxes and drop-down menus also being selected.

Results returned are then crawled. Ironically, it was just over a year ago that Google warned against getting search results like these indexed. Now it’s actually generating and crawling those results itself.

Don’t want Google doing this to your site? Google says that if your form is blocked through robots.txt or meta robots instruction, those forms won’t be accessed. In addition, some other forms won’t be touched if they fit certain technical criteria.

The move is potentially good for searchers, in that it will open up material often referred to being part of the “deep web” or “invisible web” as it was hidden behind forms.

Posted by RedChilliSearch.com – Search Marketing Company

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