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> The search engines these days cannot even function without a JS interpreter

I wonder if at some point while building a JS interpreter in the early days of Google for search reasons, they realized that the interpreter they spent all the time on could be packaged into a new browser to compete with Internet Exploder. Maybe instead it was all a conscious decision at the beginning.




Search engines navigating JS websites is a hoax. It never worked and never will. For SEO using JS for crucial parts is a death sentence


> Search engines navigating JS websites is a hoax

Google has parsed JS-generated content from businesses I work at and made it searchable within their index. That's a hoax?




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