Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to optimize operations, streamline R&D tasks, and reduce strain on Googlebot. Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to alleviate strain on ...

There have been an ongoing discussions over the past few weeks across social media that Googlebot has dramatically reduced its crawling. For example, the founder of a web crawl analysis service ...

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 ...

Google's John Mueller said if you still see that Googlebot Desktop is still the main crawler for your web site in Search Console settings, then you can try to "double-check the usual things to make ...

Google has added two new crawlers to the Googlebot family of web crawlers: Google said these two new crawlers are versions of GoogleOther optimized for fetching image and video bytes. GoogleOther was ...

One of the cornerstones of Google's business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine's web crawler, Googlebot. It ...

As expected, Google removed the crawl rate setting tool within Google Search Console. Last November, Google told us they would deprecate the crawl rate limiter legacy tool within Google Search Console ...

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 ...

There are a variety of ways that Google can visit Web sites. Ted Ives shows us a few, and raises questions about the company's crawling behavior. Aside from pointing to what he considers a "behavior ...