Why JavaScript Can Be A Problem We know that to ingest information, Googlebot will discover a page, crawl it, parse and index it. For JavaScript, the crawler needs to “render” the code.

But JavaScript can also be used for blocking bots. Using the latest version of Chrome I copied some of the JavaScript via Chrome Dev Tools and ran it through ChatGPT to ask what it does.

Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript in order to use Google Search, possibly in an effort to block certain SEO tools.

In a nutshell: Google recently confirmed that JavaScript is now required for users to submit queries to its web search service. According to a company spokesperson, the new requirement will ...