alt Hacker NewsI've also seen Google indexing pages with random values in the path that don't get linked to statically (server asks for the URL then redirects to it immediately). I'm pretty sure they index straight out of the Chrome address bar.
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morpheuskafka • today at 1:18 PM
This may have been part of this issue I found a few months back, as no other explanation for how UUID URLs got indexed was found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769796
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Vvector • today at 2:17 PM
This is why i use Firefox
foobarbecue • today at 12:29 PM
Holy crap I hope that's not true. I've also had unguessable pages indexed, though, and don't have an explanation.
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Yep. I remember a similar story as GP described from a friend back in 2008. The site he was working on that wasn't linked to yet was suddenly indexed after he checked out what it looked like in the fancy new "Chrome" browser that Google had just released, causing some moderate panic on his end.