Does disabling the "View Source" functionality prevent Google from crawling a website?

[innovationsimple]

I know Google uses a lot of variables when crawling a website. I wasn't sure if disabling the "View Source" option hindered anything.

[Jinx14678]

Hi,

I would think not - reason

The Browser itself is not seeing the page due to view source - as all the code IS the basis for the graphical representation. So the same principle applies to bots, View source is only the ability to see it in code, but the code is always available - or the page does not exist.

So I personally would think Bots would not care one way or the other, as long as they can get to it through HTTP queries/responses

Is there a way to disable just View Source, without disabling right click though?

As just from a UX perspective (IMHO) disabling right click is annoying....

[irvingw]

No, Google will spider just fine.

You can just look at the source code from the browsers tool bar anyway if you know anything about computers.. It probably does cut down on dumb people from saving images or content on your site a bit, but it's annoying IMO.