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Search Engine Indexing Results

  Words: Google MSN Yahoo! Ask.com IceRocket ExaLead Excite All The Web WiseNut Altavista
1. InnerHTML No No No No No No No No No No
2. document.write No No No No No No No No No No
3. Title text 1 No No No No No No No No No No
4. URL Text 1 No Yes (1) No No No No No No No No
5. Title text 2 No No No No No No No No No No
6. Rel text 1 No No No No No No No No No No
7. URL text 2 No Yes (1) No No No No No No No No
8. Title text 3 No No No No No No No No No No
9. Rel text 2 No No No No No No No No No No
10. visibility:hidden Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (2) No Yes Yes Yes Yes
11. display:none Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
12. decimal entities Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
13. hexidecimal entities Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes
14. Anchor name No No No No No No No No No No
15. Control Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
  1. Saw URLs and assumed they were real. URLs are listed as pages in MSN as of publication of this document.
  2. Found the term on another search engine as well as on a test page.

Key:

  1. Text inserted as innerHTML.
  2. Text inserted using document.write
  3. Title text for a generic element.
  4. URL text for a link with no linking text.
  5. Title text for a link with no linking text.
  6. Rel text for a link with no linking text.
  7. URL text for a link with linking text present ("and").
  8. Title text for a link with linking text present ("and").
  9. Rel text for a link with linking text present ("and").
  10. A div hidden using visibility:hidden.
  11. A div hidden using display:none.
  12. A word written using HTML decimal entities ("&123;").
  13. A word written using HTML hexidecimal entities ("a").
  14. The text within an anchor tag's name attribute.
  15. Control word. No special formatting or delivery.