Googlebots are Google’s search bots -- those spiders that crawl and index the web pages. Well, these bots have just got a little bit smarter. How ? Most of the commenting systems prevalent on websites use a third party commenting software -- Facebook comments/Disqus/Intense Debate etc. And more often these commenting engines use Javascript to display information and are as such difficult to be crawled by search engines, thus missing out on any SEO boost from them. Now, no more. Googlebot can now crawl your comments section as well. Confirmed by a tweet from Matt Cutts :
Now Disqus as well as Facebook comments can be searched in normal Google Search. An example here :
The original comment on a TC post (apparently Michael Arrington’s last !) -
And searching the same through Google -
While this is good news, this also calls for better moderation of comments, now that they are crawlable.
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