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This reminds me a lot of those websites that used to be implemented in Flash. It's just one giant opaque blob that gets downloaded and can do whatever it wants.
by thekyle 5y ago
This reminds me a lot of those websites that used to be implemented in Flash. It's just one giant opaque blob that gets downloaded and can do whatever it wants.
When this stuff inevitably starts being used by every news and shopping website I wonder how search engines will be able to index it.
- EvanAnderson 5y agoWhen this stuff inevitably starts being used by every news and shopping website I wonder how search engines will be able to index it. Legal agreements and money changing hands between publishers and Google.
- MivLives 5y agoThey'll just have a separate version that is SSR'd for Googlebot.
- leodriesch 5y agoDoes not make much sense. If search engines can't index it, no news website will do it.
- thekyle 5y agoIf news websites can use this to bypass ad blockers then it might still be worthwhile, and I imagine a lot of traffic comes from social media sites these days.
- Sleepytime 5y agoGoogle and their AI won't have any issues, but their competitors probably will.
- kizer 5y agometa tags, and crawlers will use headless browsers or another thing and OCR on top of that. Google already handles SPAs where the content isn’t available until the JS is run. I wouldn’t be surprised if they already have tested or use a modified chromium and for crawling, plus OCR if necessary.