Yes, they do.
I was contacted by Google solely through my website (which I hadn't updated in about 3 years). Still, they'd found it, using a pretty funky search, and then they emailed me asking if I would like to be interviewed.
As a further indictment of HR drones
Yep, you can go as old-skool as you like.
I build Flash apps regularly using ant from the command line and VIM for editing.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.