SEO: does google bot see text in hidden divs

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Published on 2010-03-10T14:13:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 13:39 UTC
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I have login/signup popups on my site which are in hidden div by default. According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1547426/google-seo-and-hidden-elements googlebot should NOT see it.

But Google Webmaster tool says that keywords "email" and "password" are top keywords over the site.

Why it is so? Why google bot sees them?

Should I worry about relevancy of top keywords at all?

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