[pmwiki-users] Play safe...

[H. Fox]

On 11/13/06, Neil Herber (nospam) <nospam at eton.ca> wrote:
> On 2006-11-13 kirpi at kirpi.it is rumoured to have said:
> > And here comes the clue of this thread: the page seems to be a
> > password protected one, yet google managed to enter and gather the
> > infos within
> > http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:RRMjp1A_M8EJ:www.clubdellafisarmonica.org/forum/post.asp%3Fmethod%3DReplyQuote%26REPLY_ID%3D772%26TOPIC_ID%3D157%26FORUM_ID%3D2+studiare+fisarmonica+cromatica&hl=it&gl=it&ct=clnk&cd=8&client=firefox-a
> > Just about the same behaviour I happened to find with *very many*
> > different sites, and many different search engines (google, yahoo,
> > altavista,...).
>
> I suspect that the pages used to be open and were password protected
> after being indexed by Google.

Another possibility: The forum software is checking the HTTP_REFERER
and letting Google's bot retrieve the pages so Google will index the
content and attract you to the site.

Hagan