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Brett_Tabke - 12:33 am on Jun 28, 2010 (gmt 0)


> their bot would have to have been able to
> execute JavaScript for the last ten years at least.

They have not been able too. Random dynamically built urls via javascript have not been downloaded by GoogleBot until q4 last year.

> The Honorable Mister Cutts confirmed this saying they
> "could" do it, but they "presently did not".

No no no. He said they could "scan" or "parse" the text, but not execute it. Looking for http: in the code is easy - executing complex js (often obfuscated to death like facebooks) is something else entirely.

> I'd say there's more then enough out there about
> google executing data on the fly.

No there is not - there is nothing out there about them executing code until g/io. Nothing in their blog posts, or from SEO's anywhere on the net that I can see. Again, scanning js for http or www is childsp lay - executing that code is entirely different. Looked at some of Facebooks code lately? GoogleBot is now executing it. That started q4 last year just before Pubcon.


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