Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt published a podcast about Googlebot, explaining that it’s not just one standalone thing but hundreds of crawlers across different products and services, most of which are not publicly documented.
What Googlebot Is
Gary clarifies that the name “Googlebot” is a historical name originating from the early days when Google had just a single crawler. That’s not the case anymore because Google operates many crawlers across different products but the name Googlebot stuck, even though it’s not one thing…

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