Comments field on Google's Add URL page

What does it do?

[sparticus]

Hi, does anybody know what the comments field is used for on Google's 'Add your URL to Google' page? (http://www.google.com/addurl.html)

(Obviously it's for putting in comments - but what does Google do with them? What sort of comments should you put?)

[takagi]

On the same page it says:

You may also add comments or keywords that describe the content of your page. These are used only for our information and do not affect how your page is indexed or used by Google.

[Yidaki]

I allways wondered what this means.

In the days, i used the submit form, i sometimes wrote some greetings or jokes there to the google staff. ;)

I wonder what the googlers do with these comments? Do they have their own collection of funny comments, or!? Are these comments displayed *somewhere*?

[Mohamed_E]

Are these comments displayed *somewhere*?

They are carefully stored, together with input from the vote buttons on the toolbar, in /dev/null ;)

[takagi]

>> They are carefully stored, together with input from the vote buttons on the toolbar, in /dev/null

I don't think so. Google likes to save a lot of data:

.. we're using multiple sources of data stretching back to 2000 in order to cross-check ... we are packrats at Google. We never seem to throw out information about the link structure of the web.

GoogleGuy in the thread Good news about expired domains [webmasterworld.com]

[Arnett]

I allways wondered what this means. In the days, i used the submit form, i sometimes wrote some greetings or jokes there to the google staff. ;)
I wonder what the googlers do with these comments? Do they have their own collection of funny comments, or!? Are these comments displayed *somewhere*?

I used to wave at the security camera every time I went to the ATM. I think the comments field is for comments. Google's submission and spidering process is largely automated. It would be interesting to know if anybody actually reads the comments or whether the field is just a holdover from a quaint earlier time when people actually screened new submissions while they baked home-made cookies for their obedient children.