Google announced that starting in December Google will update Google’s user agent to represent the version of Chrome that GoogleBot is running. It is important to update any code you may have that may ...

You can't block Googlebot from crawling specific sections of an HTML page. Using the data-nosnippet HTML attribute or an iframe can control how content appears in search snippets. A disallow rule in ...

Google updated their Googlebot Developers Support Page to reflect that Google is now able to try downloading pages via the latest HTTP/2 protocol. This is effective November 2020. The Googlebot ...

Martin Splitt from the Google Webmaster Trends Analyst team said yesterday on a hangout that they are working on closing the gap between how modern browsers render web pages and how GoogleBot renders ...

Google’s Martin Splitt discusses the effort behind making Googlebot ‘evergreen’ in this clip from Live with Search Engine Land. The evergreen Googlebot was a huge leap forward in Google’s ability to ...

Google announced it is changing the user agent name of the current GoogleBot in December. We knew this was coming when Google launched the new Evergreen GoogleBot. Google didn't change the user agent ...

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If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Google is changing how its massive webcrawler, Googlebot, is identified when accessing websites.

Googlebot, the giant webcrawler that Google uses to scan webpages and update its index, is ditching its iPhone disguise to become an Android. Rather ironically, the tool has been masquerading as an ...

I run a small antique-bookstore using wordpress and an e-commerce plugin. Lately, I haven't been able to find any books of mine on google, only the page title followed by "Buy Altace No Prescription - ...

According to new research released today by Incapsula, a web security firm, millions of these “evil twins” are used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, hacking, spam, content theft and ...