Just during my regular routine of going through news across the IT world.. I stumbled upon the following link
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060710-7225.html
Google bots crawling the web have become capable enough to index the Binary File contents too:Should Google continue to index binary files, despite the potential drawbacks? The company's position is that the more things on the Internet that are searched, the better things are for everyone, and that people shouldn't worry too much about any possible misuse. Still, the more powerful a tool becomes, the more the potential for abuse increases. This applies not only to Google, but to the Internet in general. As always, skeptical computing is the best defense.
http://homemade-tutorials.blogspot.c...ble-files.html
Are there are many unforeseen dangers of spreading malware and spyware using google bots looking straight into the eye now... Just throwing this topic for discussion.




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