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Will Google Use Chrome to Index Password Protected Web?

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Oct 05, 2008

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It's now over a month since Google released its open source web browser, Chrome. An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web - a.k.a. the 'dark web'.

Right now the Chrome Terms of Service (TOS) prevents Google from indexing private data. But when you consider that Chrome was initially presented as a browser for applications, instead of just web pages, this theory begins to make more sense.

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Most web apps are password-protected and so there's no way for a normal search engine to index the data - even data that's generalized and doesn't identify individual users. But with a full-fledged browser to complement its search engine, Google now theoretically has the means to index this previously inaccessible data.

So is Google planning to use Chrome in the future to index password protected data on the Web? This needn't be a sinister question to ask, because the Web has evolved into something that is not easily indexed. Neil McAllister wrote a great article back in July entitled Is the Web still the W

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