Anyone know why Google is indexing search result pages?

[Ray]

And to be accurate, many of the pages you mentioned are in Google's index. You might just not have come across them.

Try a search for "zoom_query site:bnbfinder.com"

[rianna]

Thanks for all the tips. If you put in zoom instead of zoom_query even more comes up in your just above sample. The example I gave earlier on how it actually looks in google is really how they all look.

We finally found a better clue. We don't have any words on our site that link to our search engine as your example at the top of this page. Google seems to be listing many zoom queries of our pages that only have PHP pagination on our site. The mysterious words seem to be any words found on the pagination pages anywhere depending on what the pagination pages are pulling from the database. It probably means what google finds on our own site notices pagination pages differently than the rest of our pages which causes them to include more. Or the bots do, which still causes google to list more. Its something in the way google or the bots are reading our pagination pages differently. Since zoom queries are already loaded in many google searches, does zoom list pagination search results somewhere differently in our own cgi ftp account? So that when google comes along it finds these already logged zoom pagination results? You guys are very busy I bet and don't have time to bother with this. But someday if you want to know more about it for your own reasons, I sent you the attachments for the good PHP pagination code to your email address. But if you find a zoom connection someday, please don't update your search engine to stop this from happening. Its bringing us more visitors and we really love having it happen.

[johnfox]

Anyone know why Google is indexing search result pages?

This may or may not be helpful, but you should know that Google is sending its spiders into GET-forms (like Zoom's).

Here's the post from Google's own site:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html

They do claim to pay attention to nofollow commands.