Google for many years did not execute JavaScript as part of it's indexing. This had the very positive effect of making the contents of the web far more accessib

Google for many years did not execute JavaScript as part of it's indexing. This had the very positive effect of making the contents of the web far more accessible, as otherwise you simply did not show in search results. They're kind of bringing this back around with AMP but in a shitty walled garden way.