How does the Toolbar Work

And will it send URL I visit even locally?

[le_gber]

Hi, I just installed the toolbar a couple of days ago and I was wondering if it might send url I use to test website (either locally or on specific url on the web), and that I don't want people to know about?

Thanks for the help

Leo

[bateman_ap]

I'm pretty sure it does, there have been past posts about people getting test sites indexed when they have had the toolbar installed. As googleguy once said that once it is on the web there are many ways of spiders finding it, if you don't want it indexed then password protect it till it needs to go live or put a block in the robots file.

[Brett_Tabke]

It only sends it if you have the "advanced" features turned on. If you have the pagerank indicator on, then it is sending the info to Google to acquire the pr value.

[felix]

If you are testing using localhost as opposed to your actual IP, that's what it will send to Google. Google won't be able to do anything with that.

[le_gber]

put a block in the robots file

Like that?
Disallow: /mytestdirectory
or this
Disallow: /mytestdirectory/*

"advanced" features turned on

I've got it that's why I'm worried :(

BTW Brett, great forums you've got there (too great I spend my whole days here, and stopped working ;)

If you are testing using localhost

I sometimes use localhost (for ASP and PHP sites), but for static site I just open the site like c:/inet/wwwroot/etc...

[felix]

I sometimes use localhost (for ASP and PHP sites), but for static site I just open the site like c:/inet/wwwroot/etc...

My belief is that the information sent to Google in either of these cases would not be useable to them. In one case the information would contain

http://localhost/etc...

in the other case, it would contain

file://c:/inet/wwwroot/etc...

Most likely, it works by sending back the document.URL string.