4 years ago, at the end of March
Google crawls links in gmail emails
Posted by pbirnie under technology
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/03/24/1959201.shtmlÂ
an interesting comment on slashdot - indicating that will crawl urls seen in gmail emails.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing, stops Google from harvesting everything they can get their hands on- and they have the storage systems and human expertise to do it.
Case and point: I emailed a link to a wiki I had just set up to 3 people, two of whom had Gmail accounts. A spider from Google hit the page hours before anyone else did, hitting the wiki just after I emailed the link out. There were no public links to the site, and no referral URL."
