How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process

Re:How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing pro... by jxi on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:07AM (#41138901)

I actually worked on this part of the Google Search infrastructure a long time ago. It's just JSC with a bunch of customizations and heuristics tuned for performance to run at a gigantic scale. There's a lot of heuristics to penalize bad sites, and I spent a ton of time debugging engine crashes on ridiculous sites.

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Re:How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing pro... by esprehn on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:53AM (#41139886)

This isn't accurate as of a number of years ago. They run headless chrome (as mentioned in the article). No more hacked up engine or JSC.

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Re:How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing pro... by emptysea on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:04AM (#41139388)

Do you know why they use JSC rather than the V8?

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Re:How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing pro... by esprehn on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:08PM (#41140011)

They don't, but at one point you might do that for lower resource consumption.

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Re:How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing pro... by stonethrowaway on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:54AM (#41139272)

Could we trouble you for a blog post? Super curious to read more about this.

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Re:How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing pro... by ta12197231937 on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:35AM (#41139739)

Care to explain why you sold your soul? Working for an ad agency that is.

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Re:How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing pro... by jessyco on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:35PM (#41140273)

This line of questioning doesn't invite any kind of positive conversation. Why not ask more politely or even just change your question so it invokes thoughtful answers.

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