yes and no. Yes they can do it, no they don't do it for all websites because it's slow and expensive. I'm still waiting for googlebot to figure out a simple win

yes and no. Yes they can do it, no they don't do it for all websites because it's slow and expensive. I'm still waiting for googlebot to figure out a simple window.location = ... In conclusion, if you rely on googlebot reading your javascript: 1. for a vast majority of websites it will never happen 2. for popular websites it will happen but not as often. Also, interestingly, this is a new way Google could push Angular: just make sure Angular powered websites don't suffer from this...