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olias - 5:59 pm on Aug 22, 2003 (gmt 0)


Last night I added a little quiz with 24 options to one of my sites, people have to submit their choice from a SELECT box.

Basically that makes for the most simple form possible, all of the possible result pages can easily be derived by taking the form action, select name and option values.

This morning I find that Googlebot has managed to crawl 17 of the results pages despite there being no other links to them, my first reaction was that it was probably the Toolbar visit - crawling thing that has been the subject of much debate - but on investigation I found at least one page that has been crawled before anyone had ever viewed it.

To my mind that rules out Toolbar theories and the usual Googleguy response about referal leakages, so I am left with the idea that the form has been crawled - does anyone have any better ideas?


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