Title: Google Code Search Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Google Code Search * [dalby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dalby/) * (@dalby) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/) * This might be of interest to everybody: * “..Google has released a new product, Google Code Search, that is capable of indexing and crawling through archive files stored in the public directories of web servers.” * [http://dev.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,33/p,198/](http://dev.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,33/p,198/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [chaaban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaaban/) * (@chaaban) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464407) * [ Google code search ](http://www.google.com/codesearch) * if google could see the password … anyone could see it also . * if it’s .php extention and php was running they will not be able to see the code source . * the only way that someone could take the pass is that you put your file in plain text in a place where all people can access it and this would be a stupid thing to do .. * Thread Starter [dalby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dalby/) * (@dalby) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464409) * So does this mean that this Google thing would not be able to search WP database backups created by the backup plugin and kept in the backup folder in wp-contents? * Thread Starter [dalby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dalby/) * (@dalby) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464410) * I don’t want to be alarmist I am just trying to understand the significance of it all. * Apparently vBulletin are also warning their users: * “It has come to our attention that Google’s new ‘Code Search’ system has been finding a number of vBulletin zip files uploaded on various customers’ sites and publishing the script contents, including sensitive data such as customer and license numbers. * Please, do not leave your vBulletin zip/tar.gz files or site backups in a web- accessible location! * If you do not ensure that your vBulletin zips are protected, not only are you leaking your own personal data, but you will also be in violation of the vBulletin license agreement by allowing your copy of the software to be downloaded by unauthorized parties.” * [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/) * (@viper007bond) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464412) * This topic has been covered many times already. * Just don’t store any backups of your site publicly. You shouldn’t have been doing that in the first place anyway. Then again, what’s not linked to can’t be found by a search engine. * [chaaban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaaban/) * (@chaaban) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464413) * > So does this mean that this Google thing would not be able to search WP database > backups created by the backup plugin and kept in the backup folder in wp-contents? * the sql generated will not contain any password … the wp-config.php is not included in the backup process . * what is available is the encrypted password for the users … * good luck decrypting it 🙂 * i just made a backup and tested it . * [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/) * (@viper007bond) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464414) * MD5 is not 100% secure, but it’s good enough, especially if you don’t use like“ apple” for a password. * Thread Starter [dalby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dalby/) * (@dalby) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464415) * Thanks, chaaban, that’s what I worried about. * Thread Starter [dalby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dalby/) * (@dalby) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464416) * “This topic has been covered many times already.” * You’re right, Viperoo7bond, and I apologise for wasting people’s time. For once I didn’t search first (to be honest the search function on this forum is the worst thing about the whole of WordPress 🙂 ) * [chaaban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaaban/) * (@chaaban) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464417) * Also to be more sure , you could search google code to see what is availble from your site , search and see what people can find in your site 😉 * [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/) * (@viper007bond) * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464422) * > to be honest the search function on this forum is the worst thing * Yeah, it sucks. Just use Google. * `search term here site:wordpress.org/support` Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Google Code Search’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/) * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-code-search/#post-464422) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics