This is a myth. First of all there is no standard and Google has no way of knowing if a website's implementation of hashbang URLs behaves in the expected ma

This is a myth. First of all there is no standard and Google has no way of knowing if a website's implementation of hashbang URLs behaves in the expected manner, or not. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/specification https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/... However you are probably right on everything else.