How is Google finding pages which don't have any links to them?

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How can Googlebot crawl and index pages that don't have any links to them on my website? I find each day two or three pages in the index that don't have any links to them on my site. The pages are generated by the search field of my website.

Danny, Bucharest, Romania



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