Re: How does google index PHP + MySQL (PostgreesSQL) websites?

Hello symbulos, Tuesday, December 14, 2004, 4:12:20 PM, you wrote: sp> does anybody know how does google (and other search engines) index websites sp> implemented in PHP + MySQL? For instance, sites which use PHP based CMS sp> (Content Management Systems)? It doesn't. It indexes the HTML that they output. As far as Google is concerned you could have a thousand trained monkies typing like mad for your CMS, it still only cares about the output - the HTML. sp> Someone told us google spiders do call for the pages so they only see the sp> resulting HTML code. Is that right? See, you knew this anyway ;) sp> Do other search engine use different methodologies? Thankfully not - if they could it would mean they could see into our PHP code and MySQL databases. Think about that for a second. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde