Should Google Cache disable popups?

Kind of annoying to view a cached page and get a bunch of popups

[savvy1]

This would be a cool value add for users (imo), and maybe even increase the stickiness that G gains by having the cache.

Then again it might annoy more webmasters into specifying no cache, or it may turn more of them against Google's caching in general.

I personally have no problem with them caching my pages.

Just a thought. It would of course take some parsing of the jscript on all pages, something which is currently thought that at least googlebot doesn't do at all. (IIUC)

[stuntdubl]

That sure would makin' surfin' for porn and illegal software much more easy. (Aren't these the only things that actually use popups anymore?:)

I also think that G's terms of service actually warn against popups anyhow doesn't it?

[dcheney]

I wonder if the owners of such sites might take offense at essentially serving their data minus their revenue generators?

(FYI, not my line of business :-)

[savvy1]

I wonder if the owners of such sites might take offense at essentially serving their data minus their revenue generators

yeah..thats what I was trying to get at...

Seems like it might even be a good idea for them to just remove all jscript from the cached source.. dunno though.. just thinking out loud :)

[dcheney]

[cynicism]I suppose such a move would certainly bump up the traffic on google by all those porn hungry folks though[/cynicism]

[savvy1]

This thread had nothing to do with pron, really. :) I see a lot of pop-ups in other areas as well. (Not so many browser-take-over/multiple pop-up/under after pop-up, but still, one is annoying). One common example is "sign up for our newsletter", or "check out this special promotion". Why does it keep turning to pron?

I just thought that as some browsers "enhance" your surfing experience by killing pop-ups, maybe Google could too for its cached pages.

That said, I "hear" that most of the TGP pages don't have pop-ups .. :)

[stuntdubl]

Although it does sound like a good idea in theory, the idea of google disecting anyone's code doesn't sound like a very appealing idea to me. As you said, serving up the all the content with none of the profit doesn't sound very fair either. As a user, I love the idea of no more mini camera ad popunders.....but in defense of those who are paid to perpetuate the propogation of porn I think we'd be better of if we didn't encourage the idea.