Google JavaScript Error affects my search ranking

[abound]

I've been showing up in the top 5 on Google for "patio furniture"
(without quotes) for about 2 years. Recently, I hit #1 . All of a
sudden I'm gone . Of course I'm used to disappearing from Google for a week or two at a time on occasion , but this time was different.

First, I verified that I was in the search results by doing some
really focused searches, but I saw the following text as my site
description:
"NOTE: It appears your browser does not support scripting
(javascript). Scripting is required to use this site."

Just to see if that error really was Google's description of my
website, I searched on "javascript patio furniture" (without the
quotes), and lo and behold I showed up. Then, I searched on "It
appears your browser does not support" (with quotes), and over 71,000
sites showed up.

Now, I want to head off one suggestion, which is that the problem is
with my host. Basically, my website is hosted by storesonline, and
the observant will see that all 71,000 websites are hosted by
storesonline. The reason for that is because they all have the same
javascript code, hence the same error message to search on. However,
search on javascript patio furniture, and you will see that many other
websites with javascript have the same type of error: they just use
different text in their error message... which means significantly
more than 71,000 sites are actually impacted by this.

Did Google change their algorithm to intentionally disallow
java-enabled sites that are unfriendly to non-java-enabled browsers?
Is it a Google bug? Does anybody know what's going on?

Thanks,
Mike

[Leader of Men]

Hmm, very intresting.

[Pimpen 2010]

Just because that error comes up with the 71,000 sites doesn't mean they are all hosted by the same company... There are other sites with that too, I'm pretty sure.

But thats interesting...

Do you have a META description tag?

[abound]

I went through about 6 pages of results at random, and they were all storesonline.com, or hosted by them.

Since posting, I have discovered that storesonline inserts a noscript tag at the top of the body, and that is source of the text. I didn't think Google spidered noscript! Is that new? If not, then my host changed the template on me. Anyways, I've edited it out... we'll see what happens on the next google round!