Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to alleviate strain on Googlebot and optimize crawling operations. GoogleOther handles non-essential tasks like R&D crawls, allowing Googlebot to ...

Google has completely reorganized its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation. It used to be all on one page and now it is in several pages. Most of the changes were just moving content ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

People CEO Neil Vogel has criticized web crawlers, accusing Google, the technology heavyweight, of being a bad actor. According to reports, the CEO of the publishing firm that operates over 40 brands ...