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It's been known for some time that Google tries to interact with content that it thinks is dynamic or retrieved via AJAX. For obvious reasons.


Interact, yes. Execute AJAX? Not so much. Matt Cutts said in April: "So Asynchronous Javascript is a little bit more complicated, and that’s maybe further down the road, but the common case is Javascript."

From the short article, it seems like this is going a bit further than what Cutts is saying GoogleBot is capable.


That specific video came out in April, but we actually taped the video a few months earlier. Google continues to work on better/smarter ways to crawl websites, including getting better at executing JavaScript to discover content.




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