Google has added two new Googlebots, Google crawlers, to its crawler list. They include GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video, which are part of the GoogleOther category of bots and are used for crawling of binary data for research and development reasons. Google wrote, “Added two new crawlers, GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video, which are versions of GoogleOther optimized for … Read more
July 8, 2015 | Posted by Michael Lerner Googlebot, the Google robot, also known as a spider crawls, indexes, and ranks the entire world wide web. It combs the internet for new and existing material and using an algorithm of ranking factors determines the position of your website in Google search. Googlebot’s mission … Read more
Google’s Search Relations answered several questions regarding webpage indexing on the latest episode of the ‘Search Off The Record’ podcast. The topics discussed were how to block Googlebot from crawling specific sections of a page and how to prevent Googlebot from accessing a site altogether. Google’s John Mueller and Gary Illyes answered the questions examined … 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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