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Will Chrome go deep?

September 10, 2008 in Google by JDA

I was just on a page on a site that is completely accessible - but only if you know the url. I was using chrome to access this page, which made me wonder: would Google use the data of my page view history to expand its index? Granted, I didn’t select the check box to help Google make Chrome better (or in other words: hand over all my usage data) - but I can imagine some sort of overall web path tracking. If that ever happens, Google would have access to pages that it otherwise would have no way of finding. That’s great for expanding the world of information - but terrible for anyone that has content on the web that is only meant to be accessed directly and not meant to be indexed. Would Google ever do this? I think it’s certainly possible.