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Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results:

Is this a possibility?

Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer:

<!--[if IE 6]>
<div>
    <h3>IE6 Instructions</h3>
    <p>To save the foobar, right click the link and select "Save as..."</p>
    <p>More content for IE6...</p>
</div>
<![endif]-->

Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase "foobar", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers?

Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?

Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results:

Is this a possibility?

Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer:

<!--[if IE 6]>
<div>
    <h3>IE6 Instructions</h3>
    <p>To save the foobar, right click the link and select "Save as..."</p>
    <p>More content for IE6...</p>
</div>
<![endif]-->

Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase "foobar", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers?

Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?

Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results:

Is this a possibility?

Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer could be indexed?

<!--[if IE 6]>
<div>
    <h3>IE6 Instructions</h3>
    <p>To save the foobar, right click the link and select "Save as..."</p>
    <p>More content for IE6...</p>
</div>
<![endif]-->

Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase "foobar", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers?

Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?

Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results:

Is this a possibility?

Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer:

<!--[if IE 6]>
<div>
    <h3>IE6 Instructions</h3>
    <p>To save the foobar, right click the link and select "Save as..."</p>
    <p>More content for IE6...</p>
</div>
<![endif]-->

Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase "foobar", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers?

Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?

Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results:

Is this a possibility?

Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?

Although I'm aware of the various methods to show content only to users of a specific IE version, I was wondering if using conditional comments would have an effect on the way my site is indexed. If I choose to use conditional comments, I don't want to see something like this in Google search results:

Is this a possibility?

Please note that the above is merely an example. Another example could be marking up an entire section of the page targeted at Internet Explorer could be indexed?

<!--[if IE 6]>
<div>
    <h3>IE6 Instructions</h3>
    <p>To save the foobar, right click the link and select "Save as..."</p>
    <p>More content for IE6...</p>
</div>
<![endif]-->

Could this on its own ever return a result for the phrase "foobar", i.e. would this content be indexed by any relevant crawlers?

Is content inside IE conditional comments indexed by any search engines?