Googlebot and Document.Write

With JavaScript/AJAX being used to place dynamic content in pages, I was wondering how Google indexed web page content that was placed in a page using the JavaScript "document.write" method. I created a page with six unique words in it. Two were in the plain HTML; two were in a script within the page document; and two were in a script that was externally sourced from a different server. The page appeared in the Google index late last night and I just wrote up the results.

Nonsense words?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

An alert came in in the late evening of March 10th for "zonkdogfology", one of the words in the first pair

zonkdogfology is a real word:

zonk-dog-fol-o-gy zohnk-dog--ful-uh-jee
noun, plural -gies.

1. the name given to articles from zonk where the summary makes no sense whatsoever.

Serious question now - is the author of the article worried that the ensuing slashdot discussion will mention all his other nonsense words? I've no doubt slashdotters will find & mention the other words here, polluting google's index....

Google Pigeon technolog

[sdugoten2]

The Google Pigeon [google.com] is smart enough to read through Document.write. Duh!

Re:Nonsense words?

[Anonymous Coward]

zonkdogfology is a real word:

It's a perfectly cromulent word, and it's use embiggens all of us.

If you want to see

[BrynM]

If you want to see through a search engine's eyes, open the page in Lynx [browser.org]. The funniest part about showing that method to another developer is when they think Lynx is broken because the page is empty. "It didn't load. How do I refresh the page? This browser sucks." Heh. Endless fun.

(method does not account for image crawlers)

Re:How does document.write mess up your DOM tree?

[hackstraw]

One of the most clever uses of document.write I've seen was something like: document.write("<--") YOU NEED JAVSCRIPT FOR THIS PAGE document.write("--&gt")