Google Documents Its Three Types Of Web Crawlers

Google has updated its Verifying Googlebot and other Google crawlers help document to add a new section describing the three categories or types of crawlers they have. They have their Googlebot crawler, special-case crawlers and user-triggered crawlers.

Google Reviews Update Heats Up Again

Google’s April 2023 reviews update is now just almost two weeks since it started rolling out, and while the update seemed to have started slow, this past week, we’ve seen some significant movement and volatility. This weekend was no exception and we are seeing some big movement this weekend.

GoogleOther: A New Generic Google Crawler To Help Googlebot

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 fetching publicly accessible content from sites.”