Why is google not using a headless browser to crawl clientside content?

Asked Apr 25 '13 at 20:46

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I'm aware of the steps it takes to make a client side website crawlable:

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started?hl=nl

I just wonder, why isn't Google just integrating a headless browser in their crawlers to save us the pain of providing html snapshots via e.g. NodeJS and a server side DOM implementation?

I guess their might be a technical reason that I'm missing. I just don't see it.

asked Apr 25 '13 at 20:46

Christoph

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Why the close vote? How can that be off topic? – Christoph Apr 25 '13 at 20:51
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This is a good question. Don't know whether anyone on stackoverflow can answer it though :) We should ask google. Especially since they are supporting angularjs.. – Milovan Zogovic Jun 11 '13 at 12:37
Recently some Googlers said, they were working on that :) – Christoph Jun 18 '13 at 20:28
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Another interesting question shut down. – Undistraction Dec 26 '13 at 19:59
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My best questions usually are closed for no obvious reason. :) – Christoph Dec 27 '13 at 10:11

Why is google not using a headless browser to crawl clientside content?

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