Make sure you are prepared for the new GoogleBot user agent, which launches this December. Google announced that starting in December Google will update Google’s user agent to represent the version of ...

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 ...

A 41-day experiment reveals how JavaScript-only navigation limits AI crawler discovery and why fixing it later can be harder.

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 ...

HTTP/2 is an upgrade over HTTP due to improved architecture. The architecture its built on allows it to deliver more features for clients and servers. What most people need to know about HTTP/2 is: it ...

Google announced that starting in November 2020 it may begin to crawl some sites over HTTP/2. Google wrote "today we're announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over ...

Matthew Hughes is a freelance writer and software developer from Liverpool, England. When he's not hunting down bugs and typos, he's planning his upcoming wedding. He likes cooking, Apple computers ...

As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, come from Mountain View, California. But the truth ...

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.

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 ...