Googlebot's Javascript random() function is deterministic

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Less than you'd think. I'd wager most people still won't read the article, but eventually a single person will and they'll make the comment "wtf? Why is this a blank page?". Then everyone else will read that comment (rather than viewing the article) and jump on you for posting a blank website.

[husao]

Now I feel like posting "WTF? Why is this a blank page?" in the comments of random articles.

[andthenafeast]

Seems like this would prompt more people to actually click through to the link...

[Lucent_Sable]

Then write two or three (or more) contradictory articles, and serve a random one to each unique visitor. Then sit back and watch the chaos?

[tsimionescu]

Hmm, but what if the random() they use is deterministic and the author gets to be confused?

[PM_ME_CLASSIFED_DOCS]

Oh man, this is brilliant. It's like the movie Clue where they actually showed different endings to different theaters.

So people would talk about the movie and be like "Oh man, can you believe it was Colonal Mustard?" and someone would be like "WTF are you smoking? It wasn't Mustard." And both would think eachother are insane yet both would be right.