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Invisible or near invisible text can be discerned without rendering the page. Google does execute JavaScript but as best people can tell it doesn't happen all
by nkozyra 8y ago
Invisible or near invisible text can be discerned without rendering the page.
Google does execute JavaScript but as best people can tell it doesn't happen all the time, just periodically. It would be computationally expensive to do this for every request on every spider view for every web site.
- tgtweak 8y agoLess than encoding millions of hours of video per day? Libchromium is quite fast and Google has lots of resources for this. They had rendered screenshots of every result with the matching section highlighted... almost 5 years ago.
- nkozyra 8y agoI'm not saying they don't do it - everyone knows they do. I'm saying for many, many cases there's no reason for them to do it for every page and every site.