I have a robot indexing test suite at
<http://www.searchtools.com/test/>, including some JavaScript
testing. You're welcome to point your robots at it: the text should
explain what is being tested.
There are a very few indiscriminate robots that follow all links:
comments, alt tags, javascript, even text, everything. The
PicoSearch service tends do to this. Most others are much more
reasonable.
I recommend that sites using JavaScript for menus provide a
<noscript> tag with simple HTML navigation for both automated systems
and disabled visitors using speaking browsers.
Good luck,
Avi
At 10:47 AM -0500 1/28/02, Tod Thomas wrote:
>Can someone please set the record straight on this?
>
>Everything I have come across says that web spiders cannot index
>javascript since they cannot parse and interpret
>it. My impression is this is particularly true for sites that use
>JavaScript almost exclusively for things like
>navigation, drop down menus, and the like.
>
>Is this true, or is a solution in place that I don't know about?
>Can anybody point me to documentation that
>discusses Javascript and how search indexing is affected? Are there
>commercial solutions available?
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