I've had .exe's show up in Google results. It was a long time ago—so maybe things don't work like that anymore—and it was never common, but I know I've seen it happen. I'm sure Google could look inside the binary for text strings, but I can't imagine they do.
There is perhaps an argument that standalone exe's shouldn't turn up in results for security reasons (how can you possibly verify its safety without some context?), but I liked to think that search results could at least theoretically include any file type at all.
I've had .exe's show up in Google results. It was a long time ago—so maybe things don't work like that anymore—and it was never common, but I know I've seen it happen. I'm sure Google could look inside the binary for text strings, but I can't imagine they do.
There is perhaps an argument that standalone exe's shouldn't turn up in results for security reasons (how can you possibly verify its safety without some context?), but I liked to think that search results could at least theoretically include any file type at all.