http://blog.stevex.net/2005/12/does-google-run-javascript/ Software development and other notes. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.stevex.net/2005/12/does-google-run-javascript/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Son Nguyen Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:50:57 +0000 http://blog.stevex.net/index.php/2005/12/24/does-google-run-javascript/#comment-425 My experience: Yes, Googlebot does execute JavaScript code. I have an AJAX vote form with Yes/No links. The links are in AJAX form. Something like this: href="javascript:vote('Yes');" and the database records these votes. I got many votes from GoogleBot. Its User-Agent string is like this: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html). Now it's annoying since I do not want the bot to vote. My experience: Yes, Googlebot does execute JavaScript code. I have an AJAX vote form with Yes/No links. The links are in AJAX form. Something like this: href=”javascript:vote(‘Yes’);” and the database records these votes. I got many votes from GoogleBot. Its User-Agent string is like this: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html). Now it’s annoying since I do not want the bot to vote.

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