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...
Here is a photo I took back in 2006 that I recently stumbled upon when looking for another photo. It is from August 2006 at the old Google Dance event, you can see old Googlebots playing soccer at the GooglePlex controlled by Googlers in lab coats. My favorite part, the flip phone taking a...
Google's Gary Illyes said that the Googlebot JSON file IP address list is updated within a few days of a new IP being added to the list of IPs that Googlebot crawls from. "We got a few comments about whether the list is up-to-date; the answer was always yes, within a margin of a few days,"...
