I posted more as a comment on the original story, but I have covered this issue in depth (from when Google initially proposed it, to when it was launched) here:

I posted more as a comment on the original story, but I have covered this issue in depth (from when Google initially proposed it, to when it was launched) here: http://searchengineland.com/google-proposes-to-make-ajax-crawlable-27408 http://searchengineland.com/google-proposes-to-make-ajax-cra... http://searchengineland.com/googles-proposal-for-crawling-ajax-may-be-live-34411 http://searchengineland.com/googles-proposal-for-crawling-aj... http://searchengineland.com/its-official-googles-proposal-for-crawling-ajax-urls-is-live-37298 http://searchengineland.com/its-official-googles-proposal-fo... Of course, a better solution is some type of progressive enhancement that ensures both that search engines can crawl the URLs and anyone using device without JavaScript support can view all of the content and navigate the site.