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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by ChuckMcM on Thursday June 14, 2012 @08:09PM (#4114266)
No, I mean queries that look for things like exposed credit card numbers or passwords, or vulnerable software. Web crawlers don't discriminate in what they index and inexperienced or inept web administrators sometimes put things out there that they shouldn't.

Criminals attempt to exploit that, using search engine results to figure out likely targets.

There are also people who try to exploit keyword searches and the advertisers who buy advertisements on them but that is less obviously criminal.

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