Identifying Search Engines
my website is pretty much database driven and i've typically parsed the data in PHP and just output flat HTML. however, i'm trying to save some badwidth by spitting out just the critical information, and have javascript parse out the data.
however, i'm kinda worried how search engines would react to this. (especially google) would search engines ignore the keywords if they are inside javascript tags? how do i detect search engines? maybe i can just setup a special script that output's "search-engine-friendly" output.
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