Google knows and reads javascript

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

Just to put to rest any doubt that Google knows javascript well...

An image gallery I launched has very little text until people comment on the pages. The adsense unit up top has more text than the entire rest of the page until I get those comments. Google previews highlight the text from the adsense units as being representative of the page text, and the ads are of course javascript via 3rd party domain.

Google knows javascript and can read/parse it just fine.

[goodroi]

Googlebot has come a long way since it started playing around with javascript over 5 years ago.

[g1smd]

Obfuscated by Javascript email addresses now regularly show visibly in the SERP snippet.

[Leosghost]

When you look at the source code on any of their pages ..are you surprised that they do ..they are all about javascript..

[Robert Charlton]

Obfuscated by Javascript email addresses now regularly show visibly in the SERP snippet.

How obfuscated?

I just ran search tests on two 'enkoded' addresses on pages that are well indexed, and the addresses still don't show. While I can imagine less elaborate encoding that might show, I don't have any examples of those handy.