Google, please don't close the web(0x2a.im)
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Google, please don't close the web
http://0x2a.im/blog/2012/03/10/google-please-dont-close-the-web/
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Maybe i dont understand either but the same thoughts come to mind, i am pretty sure i can get that content and index the content.
Bullshit post... in the case of the Google+ post, he clearly doesn't understand how bots "see" the page and on the Google Groups page he's just flat out wrong because I can see it both while logged out and while using an incognito window.
"Both pages are not indexable." What? Clearly they are indexable. Is this post claiming that indexing JavaScript content is "closing up the web"? That seems pretty arbitrary. I don't understand why making your search engine JavaScript-aware should be considered unfair to "the competition". That sounds like "innovation". I'm sure if Bing doesn't already do this, they're working on it.
Did you try changing your user agent? I work for a company that runs a heavily javascripted site, and we return straight HTML if you are a bot. It's entirely possible that they do the same...
They shouldn't. At least if they follow their own rules. They cracked down heavily on sites (like experts-exchange.com) who would display results and answers to GoogleBot, but when humans attempted to browse that page, they had to register/ pay to see the same page.
That's known as cloaking. user agent sniffing is never a very good idea from SEO perspective. googlebot also uses normal browser user agent and if it finds that you are returning different content based on user agent then your site can be in trouble.
I can see the Google groups post in an incognito window while logged out. Either I misunderstand or this post is mistaken.