JavaScript was created in 1995. Google’s search engine debuted in 1998. Yet it took 15 years for the two to fully intertwine. Up until a few months ago, Google’s search engine crawlers couldn ...

Google's web crawler simulates "idle" states to better render JavaScript-heavy sites, improving indexing of deferred content on webpages.

Last week Google announced a significant change to their crawler’s behavior. The “Googlebot” finally has the ability to interpret JavaScript, the last remaining core construct used to create ...

Bingbot rendering web pages using Microsoft Edge on Chromium creates compatibility across web crawlers, ensuring all JavaScript frameworks can be supported.

Google's AI crawler, Google-Extended, the crawler it uses for Gemini and other related AI services, does render itself and can render JavaScript, just like Googlebot, Google's main web search crawler.

Google announced the launch of a new version of its web crawler Googlebot on Tuesday at the Google I/O developer conference. Googlebot will now be “evergreen,” which means the crawler will ...