Will Googlebot crawl HTTPS URLs that are encrypted by SSL?

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Does Googlebot crawl HTTPS? (Please provide references.)

Not too sure this was needed? The SO question has an accepted answer which is correct - regardless of the need for an official source when Tim's answer below clearly demonstrates that secure pages are crawled. You've also gone on to answer this same question here. — zigojacko, Nov 06 '13 at 09:13

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 05 '13 at 20:25

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Yes. This is simple to demonstrate: A Google search for inurl:https yields 8.2 billion results.

answered Nov 05 '13 at 20:25

Tim Fountain

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