Can Google Toolbar Cause Pages to Be Indexed?
December 15th, 2006 by Jason
So, you created a new web page and visited your new page using a browser installed with Google Toolbar.
You hope that your page will somehow be indexed by the Google search engine…
Well, that’s not going to happen, at least according to Matt Cutts.
In an experiment by Philipp Lenssen (where he had a little bet with Matt Cutts) on the premise that
once you installed the Google Toolbar, every URL you’d visit would slowly be added to the Google web search index… even otherwise unlinked URLs, as long as they’re public (and not excluded via robots.txt)
Philipp set up a secret page and visited his page via a browser installed with Google Toolbar.
After a few months, Google Toolbar did not index his secret page. Philipp lost the bet of course.
Yet another Google Search myth debunked!
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