bumpski - 11:26 am on Dec 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

Many Web site designers are using technology today that Google(bot) still does not understand.

What will happen to your site's standing in the SERPs the day Googlebot learns CSS?

The day Google implements CSS file crawling and understanding I expect massive changes in the ranking of pages. Could that day be coming soon? Could Google be looking at embedded information now and experimenting? Webmasters are trying to move to new technologies and certainly some have had a bad experience.

Google could start to simply query a website just like a browser does and then parse the object model. How would your pages rank when Google actually "looks" at them?

Google's Web Accelerator gives Google this perspective today. The accelerator pre-fetches the entire web page's content and more onto Google servers! Using this technology Google could be learning and analyzing CSS file content today.

Fortunately the last time I looked the accelerator was slower, actually causing two fetches (GETS) of all content, the original by your browser and the same request duplicated by the accelerator (slooowww).

[webaccelerator.google.com...]

I'm just interested in other webmasters perspectives.