Google indexing pages from chrome history ?

[vivekrathore]

We have pages that are not linked from site yet they are indexed in Google. It could be possible if Google got these pages from browser. Does Google takes data from chrome?

[Bob_van_Biezen]

Hi Anirban,

As far as I know they don’t crawl websites that way. Did you check the following?

• Make sure there are no internal links (you already said so, but double check this since one link can get a whole lot of pages indexed).
• These pages don’t have external links pointing to them
• These pages aren’t in the sitemap

If you wish to keep pages out of the index you can try the following:

• Add the noindex tag
• Exclude them through your robot.txt file

I hope this helps.

[AMHC]

I have it on pretty good authority that Google uses secure search for indexing. I've seen some definitive test results that categorically prove that Google uses your browsing activity for finding and indexing pages, plus unofficial confirmation from former Google employees.

It's a dirty little secret.

This would be a great test for Rand Fishkin to build a case study on.

[EricaMcGillivray]

It's not a secret that Google can use Chrome anyway that it wants for data collecting. Just read the TOS.