As this site is obviously under development, the last thing on anyone’s mind was getting the site indexed by the Google search engine. First you build the site, then it gets indexed by Google, then visitors arrive, right? At least that’s the way Mom always said it should work. So how does a brand new site suddenly appear in the Google index?

Here are a few guesses on how Google could have discovered and indexed this site so early without the site being submitted to Google or linked to by anyone.

• It was discovered by the Google Toolbar
• Found via a ping from the test post when the blog was installed
• Google spiders newly registered domains

So much for the mythical “Google sandbox.”

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