Google now indexes javascript

proof

[claus]

Just got proof five minutes ago, there's been talk for a while i know.

Take a look at the pages in these serps: [google.com...]

/claus

[Giacomo]

> Thank you for insight to look at the cache. :)

Unfortunately, the cached snapshot for that page is not available, so we cannot tell for sure what Googlebot saw when it crawled the page: (as I said above) the "View as HTML" version is only an "HTML translation" of the actual content. Sorry for generating confusion.

> How did a piece of JS end up being seen by Google as page text, abstracted from the JS block?

My theory is that the "302 Found" HTTP/1.0 status header might have caused the problem. But it might as well be a Google bug, who knows? :)

One thing is certain: Google does not index JS code as plain text by default, as this is not the normally observed behaviour.

[edited by: Giacomo at 1:54 pm (utc) on Aug. 21, 2003]