Google has indexed itself

[lozmatic]

Hello,

The number of my site's pages in Google has jumped from around 3,000 to 11,600. As I don't have that many pages the only explenation is that Google has indexed search results. As I use Google for my internal searches (via API) Google has effectively indexed itself!

I'm not complaining as I'm getting 30% more traffic. But it just don't feel right.

Has anyone else experienced the same? Should I stop Google from spidering my (its) search results?

[seobook]

have you also verified that they are not indexing your other pages with the same content at multiple URLs?

[softplus]

pretty sure duplicate content ... check for session-ids, mismatched case in the URLs, different parameter order, etc.

I saw one site go from 57 real URLs to 950 indexed URLs in Google in the last month - looks good at first, but when you get all of them thrown out because of duplicate content....

[CaliforniaGirl]

I am not saying that hte following thread provides any answers but, you are not the only one out there that this is affecting:

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/...ead.php?t=7925