Does Google index pages from Google?

Is it possible.

[xMadx]

Hello,

Simply question :
Does Google index pages from Google ?

If I add a link like in my site like :
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?q=keyword+keyword2">keyword</A>

Does Google considere this link as a backward link ?

Ps : I notice that the page from google has a PR and no metatag such noindex.

[conor]

No they don't.

They don't allow any spiders, see http:\\www.google.com/robots.txt

[edited by: conor at 5:34 pm (utc) on Aug. 26, 2002]

[Slud]

No.

See the first disallow line on [google.com...]

[xMadx]

Thanks,
and what's happen if the URL is :

[google.com...]

[ciml]

As conor and Slud point out, that URL can't be spidered so your link can never be found.

Even if it could be spidered, the PageRank you would get from that link would only be a proportion of the PageRank it is given from other pages, divided by how many outbound links it has. Google's PR10 home page doesn't link to that URL so there would be no real benefit.

If a page has a link to you then linking to it won't help much in Google. If there's any PageRank there to acquire, the page will be indexed with or without your link.

[xMadx]

Oupps sorry, error:
URL:
[google.com...]

[crash]

In order for the SERP link to count the page would have to be indexed and as pointed out - Google blocks it's own bot. It doesn't matter what's after the .com/ as soon as they see 'google.com' it's dropped.

I'd hazard the guess this is done specifically to stop pages gaining PR credit from Google SERP's :)

[xMadx]

Thank Crash,

That what I thought, Google doesn't index Google pages.

[mikeputnam]

Why then, does "link:http://www.google.com/" return Google pages as well as non-Google pages? It's as if they crawl themselves, but not their own search results.

[ikbenhet1]

GOOD POINT SEE:

if you seek a site, and click the cache link you can clearly see that google want's you to link like this: (for this particular site)

[google.nl...]

just seek your own site, click cache and look at your own code!

what up with this? moderators? how should we link?

[crash]

Why then, does "link:http://www.google.com/" return Google pages as well as non-Google pages? It's as if they crawl themselves, but not their own search results.

I'm assuming your talking about directory pages. They do index directory pages and they count.. but not SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages).

As for the cache link.. um.. huh?

That is not how you should link. That is what the cache link looks like, it pulls Google disclaimer header data into the page to clearly point out that your viewing G's cache and not the live site.

[btw: any one ever check that out on a CSS site ;) view Glish's site cache]