Google has begun requiring users of its search engine to turn on JavaScript, a programming language that makes web pages interactive. The company said it protects ...

Google announced it was retiring its Octane JavaScript benchmark, saying most of its tests are outdated and contained bugs that allowed browser developers to cheat and obtain higher scores than ...

Google’s new mandate that all search requests must be rendered with JavaScript has sent shockwaves through the scraping community. In the past month, many legacy tools stumbled under the JS wall while ...

Google debuted version 2.0 of its Octane benchmark suite today, a set of 17 tests that measure how fast a browser can execute JavaScript code. The addition of asm.js is a pretty interesting move for ...

Google has added a single "note" to the create crawlable links help documentation to say that links generated by JavaScript, where the link is visible, can be crawled by Google. Google added this line ...

Why browsers still allow pop-up dialogs, which are favored by scammers, is a mystery that baffles techies. As one user on HackerNews recently complained: "There are still malware and advertising sites ...

Truth is, Google is super awesome at getting into content that most search engine crawlers cannot find. GoogleBot is able to execute and run much of the JavaScript and AJAX it encounters but it is not ...