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Googlebot
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Google
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Web crawler
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Googlebot FAQ
Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user).[1]
Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This...
the website. Get a list of links which Googlebot had difficulty in crawling, including the error that Googlebot received when accessing the URLs in question...
rendering, Googlebot must have a policy that controls apps’ network access. These are why getting your JavaScript app indexed properly by Googlebot is still...
index for the Bing (search engine). It performs the same as Google's Googlebot. A typical user agent string for Bingbot is "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;...
For example, to specifically block Google's bot, specify: <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> Or, to block Bing's bot, specify: <meta name="bingbot"...
faster than the standard Googlebot, because updates to blogs often become available within hours instead of weeks taken by Googlebot default. The Blog Search...
on February 22, 2019. Retrieved January 16, 2019. "The new evergreen Googlebot". Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. Archived from the original on...
browser's User Agent string to that of a search engine crawler such as GoogleBot. In response to these obfuscation techniques, which prevented anonymous...
2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts announced on his blog that GoogleBot changed the way it treats nofollowed links, in order to prevent webmasters...
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