Dell apparently learned the hard way this week that companies have to be careful to ensure that information they store on the Internet that they want to keep hidden is not automatically added to a search engine index for everyone on the Web to see.
Specifications for future Dell notebooks were accessible via Google's search site before the content was pulled from a Dell file transfer protocol site and from Google's cache.
Google, like the other major search engines, has an automated search engine that sends software robots called "spiders" out to crawl the Web and find sites to add to the index of Web sites it maintains. Because the spiders follow links running from one Web site to others, they pick up sites on their own without Webmasters having to manually submit them to search engines.
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