While searching for these terms is not illegal in itself, accessing the feeds raises ethical and legal questions.
In the early days of the "Internet of Things" (IoT), network security was often an afterthought for consumer electronics manufacturers.
The search query inurl:"viewerframe? mode=motion" is a famous used to locate live, unsecured network cameras on the open internet.
Instead of exposing your camera's "Viewerframe Mode" directly to the internet for remote viewing, use a secure tunnel.
While often associated with "white hat" security exploration or simple curiosity, this search query highlights significant vulnerabilities in the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Google operates as a content-neutral search engine. Its crawlers do not judge a page’s content; they simply index what is linked or accessible. Unless a webmaster explicitly uses a robots.txt file to disallow crawling (e.g., Disallow: /viewerframe.html ), Google will index it.