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Mirror Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/sear
by blauwbilgorgel 15y ago
Mirror Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/ https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
I started believing that Googlebot would render entire pages, when Google Pagespeed was introduced. When they calculate page loading times, they can also produce a waterfall view of the rendering progress.
Before I suspected some rendering/css/DOM parsing was used to detect hidden text and links, but not on such a massive scale. Like now you can index a new page and it almost looks like a preview image gets generated "on-the-fly" when there is no cache available.
I wonder how much of this render data is used for Google Panda quality control updates. Position of advertisements, call-to-actions, author information, address information and disclaimer/privacy policies could now all play a role in making your site seem more credible in the eyes of Google and your users.
- daxelrod 15y agoBe careful clicking that Google Cache link. The page appears to make a bunch of requests to shady sites.
- techarity 15y agoHaha those calls are AJAX calls for the social sharing widgets in IPullRank. It's Twitter, Digg, ShareThis, etc. Thank you for looking out for the fine folks at HN though!
- daxelrod 15y agoI was actually talking about requests to the website roots of various porn and p2p domains. EDIT: Please contact me at the address in my profile if you'd like me to send you a list of URLs that my browser accessed when I loaded that cached page.
- blauwbilgorgel 15y agoI can't edit that link anymore. Would suck if the Wordpress install was hacked. I'll try to contact the author. Thank you for the heads up.
- techarity 15y agoA quick run through the site with Firebug's XHR and Dependency Logger didn't show any Porn or P2P links or strange script calls. I'll see if the site owner wants to reach out to you view email; thanks so much for speaking up.
- lambda 15y agoYeah, when I loaded the original article, I got a lot more loaded than you would expect (hundreds of domains, most of which don't appear to be relevant), leading me to believe that something shady is going on.