Google and CSS

How well does G understand CSS?

[your_store]

Breaking from another thread...

To my knowlege, google can look at style.css files and compare size of class's that you have defined

I find it it plausible that Google could compare classes, but that is CSS at its most basic. They're are so many ways to change the presentation of an html element, that Google would need a browser grade CSS parser to go along w/ Googlebot. You would think adding that much weight to presentation would be a drain on crawling resources.

Anyone have evidence of Google comparing sizes of text controlled by more advanced CSS selectors?

[blaze]

It's pretty likely they do. They'd really only need to do random sampling .. not necessary to do every page off a website.

If one page has a problem, probability may dictate a closer look at the rest.

[mcavic]

would need a browser grade CSS parser to go along w/ Googlebot

With the speed that Google's code runs at, I don't think that would be a problem.