OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, have published information on its web crawler named GPTBot. You can now see if OpenAI is crawling your site, how much so, and you can disallow access to all or part of your site with the robots.txt protocol. You can see the documentation for GPTBot over here. User agent token: … Read more
OpenAI has published information about its new web crawler named GPTBot. You can read the documentation on GPTBot over here. What is GPTBot. GPTBot is OpenAI’s web crawler, used by OpenAI to crawl the web, consume knowledge for its AI features, such as ChatGPT, and use that to provide AI-generaterd answers to your questions. Useragent. … Read more
Google has released a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named Google-InspectionTool. This new Google crawler will be how Google identifies crawling activity for the crawler used by Google Search’s testing tools, like the rich results test and Google Search Console’s URL inspection tool. Google-InspectionTool. Google posted details about this new crawler in its help document … Read more
Google has added a new user agent to the list of Google crawlers, Googlebots. This one is named Google-InspectionTool and goes under both the Googlebot user agent and also the name Google-InspectionTool. Google added this to the Google crawler help document over here. It says, “Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such … Read more
Google has now added new details that explain the three categories its Google crawlers fall into, they include Googlebot, special-case crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. In addition, Google now lists a JSON formatted file containing the list of IP addresses each of these different crawler types use. Types of Google crawlers. At the top of this … Read more
Google has launched GoogleOther, a new web crawler. GoogleOther will be used internally by various Google teams to crawl the public web, said Google’s Gary Illyes on LinkedIn. It respects the same directives and protocols of the main Googlebot crawler and will free up some resources for the main Googlebot crawlers. GoogleOther. Google added GoogleOther … Read more
Google has added a new crawler to its list of Google Crawlers and user agents, this one is named GoogleOther. It is described as a “generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites.” For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and … Read more
Google has recently introduced a new web crawler called “GoogleOther,” designed to alleviate strain on Googlebot, its primary search index crawler. The addition of this new crawler will ultimately help Google optimize and streamline its crawling operations. Web crawlers, also known as robots or spiders, automatically discover and scan websites. Googlebot is responsible for building … Read more
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