Was reading an article complaining about supposed search engine spamming by Target on Google (http://www.goodroi.com/why-google-allows-target-com-to-spam-results/)
While its still not clear if it is an intentional spamming attempt by Target (general consensus is that it is not), there are 2 things that you learn about how Google operates from reading through the comments:
a. Google datamines from the Google Toolbar. Based on what and where you visit, Google gets that information from its installed Search Toolbar, and uses it as references to crawl and index.
b. Google is looking into submitting forms and indexing the results too (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html)
The 2nd thing is pretty interesting… anyone noticed this behaviour of Googlebot in the wild?
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