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Reminds me of "Googlebot Is Chrome": http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/ http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/ Obviously the claim probably isn't lit
by rcthompson 12y ago
Reminds me of "Googlebot Is Chrome": http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/ http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/
Obviously the claim probably isn't literally true, but it they could certainly share a JS engine (V8) at the very least, and the idea that the motivation behind developing that JS engine may have been spidering JS-dependent pages doesn't seem too far-fetched.
- bhartzer 12y agoActually, they built Googlebot first--and then took parts of it to build Chrome. Googlebot is Chrome and Chrome is Googlebot (minus a few features like crawling).