How does Google index our site when you're doing a Website Optimizer experiment?

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I'm about to use Google's Website Optimizer to do a/b testing on the home page of my site. My question is: which of the alternative pages will google's spider index? All of them? I couldn't find any info about this on google or on GWO pages.

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