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		jbhelms on Jan 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Website outages and blackouts the right way Since GoogleBot doesn't run javascript, does that mean that an all Javascript solution would work without disrupting indexing?

a-priori on Jan 16, 2012 | [–]

Be warned, there's some evidence that GoogleBot now executes Javascript.

http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/

jefftk on Jan 16, 2012 | [–]

It does run javascript: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-01-11.html

jbhelms on Jan 17, 2012 | [–]

That is good to know. I guess this helps catch SEO cheats with javascript

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