title: Does googlebot interact with the <select> or <input type="submit"> inside <form method="post">?
body: <p><strong>Background of Problem:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have a search page that allows users to select their search criteria using a <code>&lt;select&gt;</code>.  Once the user has selected their desired criterias, the user can then click the search button which will navigate to a new page and return results based on their selected criteria.  The submit button is a <code>&lt;input type="submit"&gt;</code> inside <code>&lt;form method="post"&gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is I do not want google touching any of the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;input type="submit"&gt;</code> inside <code>&lt;form method="post"&gt;</code> as both elements have ajax get/post attached to them.  Furthermore, I also do not want google to index the result pages of the search. </p>
  
  <p>I have specified in robots.txt to block web-crawlers from navigating to the results page but I want to ensure that they are not playing around with any of the menus or submit buttons.  After doing some reading, apparently googlebot is capable of selecting options from select menus as well as submitting forms.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Here is a link of where I read this from:</strong></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2011/11/get-post-and-safely-surfacing-more-of.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ca/2011/11/get-post-and-safely-surfacing-more-of.html</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Question:</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Does googlebot interact with the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;input type="submit"&gt;</code> inside <code>&lt;form method="post"&gt;</code></li>
  <li>If yes, is there any way to prevent googlebot from touching any of the <code>&lt;select&gt;</code> or <code>&lt;input type="submit"&gt;</code> inside <code>&lt;form method="post"&gt;</code></li>
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