Link discovery

Googlebot generally discovers links by looking through the HTML contents of a crawled page.

It does so, including HTML parts that are generated by JavaScript, which means that the rendered HTML is used.

That rendered HTML is the output of the Web Rendering Service (WRS).

Questions

So link, such as this one to the Feature Detection page will be discovered, but what about links that are hidden in comment nodes in the HTML?

Let's find out!