> Google search hasn't died because sites use JS. I believe it's the other way around. Websites use just as much JS as they can get away with, without sinking

> Google search hasn't died because sites use JS. I believe it's the other way around. Websites use just as much JS as they can get away with, without sinking in Google results. If Google never ran JS in the first place, most websites wouldn't depend on it. And now every crawler has to keep up with Googlebot's computing power if they want to archive the web.