Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, and notes that HTML ...

You can't block Googlebot from crawling specific sections of an HTML page. Using the data-nosnippet HTML attribute or an iframe can control how content appears in search snippets. A disallow rule in ...

https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Google+Inc..html is to blame for publishing a six-year-old news story that caused the stock of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines ...

Kristina Azarenko, a Technical SEO specialist, recently carried out an intriguing study to comprehend the implications of preventing Googlebot from accessing a website through robots.txt. Between ...

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 ...

Google announced it is changing the user agent name of the current GoogleBot in December. We knew this was coming when Google launched the new Evergreen GoogleBot. Google didn't change the user agent ...

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 ...

Google announced the launch of a new version of its web crawler Googlebot on Tuesday at the Google I/O developer conference. Googlebot will now be “evergreen,” which means the crawler will always be ...

Just an FYI, Google did not simply flip the switch last week and turn on the new GoogleBot, the evergreen GoogleBot, over night. Google said it was already indexing 10% of the web back in November. It ...

Googlebot, the giant webcrawler that Google uses to scan webpages and update its index, is ditching its iPhone disguise to become an Android. Rather ironically, the tool has been masquerading as an ...