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Maybe Googlebot forks its JS-engine from a pre-initialized image. That would explain the unchanging seed.
by lolc 9y ago
Maybe Googlebot forks its JS-engine from a pre-initialized image. That would explain the unchanging seed.
- simias 9y agoRegardless of other technical limitations I'm guessing that it's actually done on purpose, as point #3 in TFA states: >Predictable – Googlebot can trust a page will render the same on each visit It's probably important for Google's crawler to identify whether a page changed or not, if some elements in a page are randomly generated they may want to limit the impact. I mean, after all they seem to use a real, changing value for their Date, so if they wanted they could just seed their RNG with that.