Google crawling: Does Google crawl websites using Android phone data?

[Harro5]

Google crawling is an important process for a search engine of this magnitude. However, knowing the full scale of the world wide, is it possible that Google is crawling websites based on traffic data mining from android devices?

What triggered this question is because a friend's website which was not submitted to Google was crawled and indexed. Prior to Google crawling it, we've been using our Android phones to test the website.

 

[AugieTN]

When you register a website the url becomes public knowledge, or is your friend just using an IP address?

 

[Harro5]

When you register a website the url becomes public knowledge, or is your friend just using an IP address?

It's not an IP address, it's a url like you said. How is it possible when it's not posted anywhere?

 

[AugieTN]

It's not an IP address, it's a url like you said. How is it possible when it's not posted anywhere?

What I meant was once you register the web address all the companies that sell a web address know what was registered so there aren't any duplicates. I would think search engines look for all the new registered web addresses. That's what I would think is happening.

It use to be you had to register your web address with the search engines. I don't think you have to do that anymore.