Comments on: Google can now run Javascript

By: Sreejith Sasidharan

Sreejith Sasidharan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:58:11 +0000

Nice to know about this, but then how we can relay on Google analytics !!! Which is poorly working on JS and will it avoid reports for bot crawls. There are many traffic analysis done using the JS reporting tools like Hitbox.

By: martha

martha — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:53:50 +0000

Thanks for sharing the post…
Really nice…

By: Polat Alemdar

Polat Alemdar — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:25:12 +0000

I read about Google can crawl Flash sites better but I’ve heard now Google can execute JavaScript files. It’s very interesting.

By: Internet Marketing Strategy

Internet Marketing Strategy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:31:07 +0000

They’ve been working on decoding Javascript and Flash for their browsers for some time. It will be interesting to see how this impacts code that was thought to be hidden. It seems that more and more search engine spiders are scanning sites and making public information that the website owners wished would remain private.

By: Sales Training Melbourne

Sales Training Melbourne — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:22:31 +0000

great news, thanks for sharing. I found this site while searching for an article about the SEO.

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:44:33 +0000

I recently realised Google must be executing javascript when I found I could google email addresses on my web pages that were cloaked using js.

By: ogletree

ogletree — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:53:47 +0000

The site uses javascript as an include. When I go to the google cache it shows the content that can only be viewed if you run javascript. The content is saved in a database and the only way to pull it out is by running javascript.

By: Somik Ranjan Roy

Somik Ranjan Roy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:36:44 +0000

If that is the case then surely contents obtained in the form of RSS Feed in Java Script will be crawled by Google. In that case we surely do not have to convert contents obtained as JavaScript to HTML on websites for fresh contents to rank well with Google search engines. But has this facility to bot JavaScript been officially declared by Google?

By: Search Engine Marketing - headland

Search Engine Marketing - headland — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:51:32 +0000

This is interesting and all the major search engines including Google are working hard to crawl JavaScript and Flash. As mentioned in the start of post, important thing is how robust this will be.

We need to consider this as a first step and I hope this will open new horizons for the world of internet marketing.

By: Matteo

Matteo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:43:06 +0000

It’s very interesting, as you say some weeks ago Google announced that flash sites were crawlable too and also that they were working on implement a way to follow javascript code in order to index flash movies called by js.

Probably it’s something related to this… btw may I ask you a thing? In the website you noticed this are you using a js calls with onclick only or with also an href link in order to allow ppl without js installed to browse the website?
Because if you are using this probably the site has been crawled thanks to this.