[taf2]

When I think of a search engine I think of it as two things.

1. A web crawler 2. A search index

Or as a good boss used to say garbage in garbage out... the quality of the engine is as much a function of the index’s ability to rank as the quality of the input from the crawler... the fact that none of the other engines crawl with JS enabled is a huge competitive advantage for google

[missblit]

Bing also renders JavaScript [1][2]. Though there's not a lot of information out there about the details like what browser engine they use.

[1] https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/october-2018/bingbot-Series... [2] https://searchengineland.com/bing-crawling-indexing-and-rend...

[hobs]

Well sure, but you could also just make a website with a modicum of thought and then all search engines will have no problem.

Anything that loads no resources unless I have javascript enabled (and is a general purpose website, not some 3d toy or whatever) is trash.

[damnyou]

I mean, clearly this site has value to the OP so it is obviously not trash.

What value a service provides is what matters in the end. Implementation details are secondary.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Pulling gems out of trash does not make it not trash.