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So would the more accurate interpretation be: google is starting to promote that it can and will index javascript single page apps? Thanks for sharing, and nic

• KMag 12y ago
  There were a lot of caveats that both reduced fidelity and would have made announcements confusing back when I was at Google. Also, if one mentions a limitation in an announcement, a lot of the Search Engine Optimization community would be citing the announcement for more than 6 months. So, it's difficult and potentially counter-productive to have an announcement with lots of caveats. V8 and Chrome weren't even a glimmer in Google's eye back in 2006, so I hope they've largely replaced the code I was working on with something based on Chrome. As late as 2010, the DOM was a completely custom implementation that looked somewhat like Firefox, but with enough IE features to fool lots of other pages that would otherwise change their content to "You must run IE to view this page". (On a side note, as much as many people would like to see such pages heavily penalized and indexed as if the IE-only message were their only information, some of those pages are unique sources of invaluable information and users wouldn't be well served by such harsh treatment.)