Does Google find URLs in JavaScripts?

If Google can find URLs in Flash, cant it in JavaScript, as well?

[166geary]

Hey all,

I have usually recommended people to stay away from Macromedia DreamWeaver's "Pop-Up Menu" feature, which creates a drop-down menu, because it buries the URLs inside Macromedia's javascripts. I figured tht Google just skips anything between the <script> tag. So, if they had to use the drop-down menu, they should place links in the <NOSCRIPT> tag.

But with more complex web sites nowadays using more javascript and with Google finding URLs in Flash, is it plasible to say that Google detects URLs inside JavaScript coding?

I would assume yes. Anyone out there can verify this?

[nobody]

GG has said that they can (or have been trying) to find links in JS.

I think other people have noticed the googlebot probing around in their JS files, so they are trying something. Could be that they are just trying to detect SEO done with Javascript (as other people have said).

Having said that, it depends on how well your URLs are mangled inside the JS.

[pagano]

Here,
[webmasterworld.com...]
GoogleGuy makes a little point out to the problem ...

[BigDave]

They find URLs anywhere in the file, but they will only use these URLs to find that page, they do not currently pass PR to the page unless it is in a standard link.

[166geary]

Pageno, thanks for the find. I feel silly about not finding that one.

[trimmer80]

they do not currently pass PR to the page unless it is in a standard link.

What if it is through a hit counter. e.g.

[examples.com...]

where the counter redirects to the destination url.

or similar to the way webmasterworld treat their links (look at link above).

Has anyone see if this passes PR?

[BigDave]

That depends on how they do the redirect.