With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler. Google made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers ...

Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to optimize operations, streamline R&D tasks, and reduce strain on Googlebot. Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to alleviate strain on ...

Google has fixed a typo in their crawler documentation that inadvertently misidentified one of their crawlers. In general, this is a minor issue but it’s a major issue for SEOs and publishers who ...

Google may be crawling the web with a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named GoogleProducer. This useragent is not listed on the official Google crawlers page but maybe it is too new to be listed yet?

Google announced the launch of a new version of its web crawler Googlebot on Tuesday at the Google I/O developer conference. Googlebot will now be “evergreen,” which means the crawler will always be ...

Google's AI crawler, Google-Extended, the crawler it uses for Gemini and other related AI services, does render itself and can render JavaScript, just like Googlebot, Google's main web search crawler.

Google has launched GoogleOther, a new web crawler that various internal teams within the company will use to crawl the public web. It is unclear whether Google plans to use GoogleOther for Bard, its ...

Today, one company—Google—controls nearly all of the world’s access to information on the internet. Their monopoly in search means for billions of people, their gateway to knowledge, to products, and ...

One of the cornerstones of Google's business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine's web crawler, Googlebot. It ...

United Air Lines (UAL) rode out a bumpy ride on the stock market yesterday when a 6-year-old old news article on the company’s bankruptcy filing resurfaced on Google and was reported by an investment ...