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Re:Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible ... by hdevalence on Friday January 25, 2013 @04:19PM (#5117698)
When you type into the chrome omnibox, it sends your keystrokes to Google to give you search suggestions. Just using those would be sufficient, and I don't think they really hide that it's sending your input along. If someone does a Google search for a URL, we expect it to get added to the index; why is it different when the search occurs in the omnibox rather than their web interface?
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Re:Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible ... by diminoten on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:02PM (#5118899)
URLs don't go through google when you type them in Chrome's URL box, they go directly to the address. Chrome only sends things to Google that it can't interpret as a URL.
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Re:Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible ... by randallu on Friday January 25, 2013 @11:53PM (#5119291)
Actually it looks like URLs do go to google's suggestion service as you type into Chrome's URL box.

I tried typing "http://then and it suggested a UPS package URL and "thenicestplaceontheinter.net". I've not been to either of those pages before (I use Chrome for testing, so I'm not signed into it, etc).

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Re:Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible ... by diminoten on Sunday January 27, 2013 @05:36PM (#5125971)
I can tell you assertively that, if you capture packets while using Google Chrome's address bar for URLs, it does not send the data to Google.
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