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Re:XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation by anaphor on Friday July 19, 2019 @08:47AM (#20478158)
They are probably already aware of this if they do this sort of black hat SEO type stuff.
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Re:XSS attacks on Googlebot allow search index manipulation by ryanlol on Friday July 19, 2019 @09:35AM (#20478492)
Yeah, this particular technique is as old as the hills.

CVE-2007-1287 was abused for this specific purpose over a decade ago, and remnants of that still occasionally show up in google indexes.

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