Google made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation, mostly breaking out the single-page document into multiple pages and documents. But Google also expanded what ...

Gary Illyes from Google shared some more details on Googlebot, Google’s crawling ecosystem, fetching and how it processes bytes. The article is named Inside Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, ...

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's new robots.txt video says the standard covers crawling, not how content gets used, and recommends percent-encoding ...

Google broke down the general timing it takes for various Google Search tasks take, both in terms of average time and longest time.

Approved forums and social platforms can send content and interaction signals through a separate pipeline. Here's who can ...

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?

From September 30 to October 2, 2026, "Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe" was held in Barcelona. It is reported that ...

Ethics and big business go together like water and sodium. We can’t deny that, in order to ensure continued growth, a business has to pull some shady and messed-up practices, and this means that ...

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 ...

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 ...