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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by rjh29 on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @07:33AM (#5742959)
I would be surprised if Google was not doing this themselves to some extent.
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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by yahelc on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @09:43AM (#5743558)
There's some evidence that they are.

[1] http://searchengineland.com/google-can-now-execute-ajax-java... [2] http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/can-google-really-access-content-i...

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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by akmiller on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @09:38AM (#5743535)
They are not (although they definitely should be). Google will read and index javascript, they do not execute it.
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