What is Googlebot?

[pharmasecure]

What is Googlebot?

[soleseriouss]

Googlebot is the web crawler software that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine.

[storehifuture]

Googlebot is the generic name for Google's web crawler.

[Electrum]

Googlebot, Web crawler, Spider, All those terms mean the same thing: it’s a bot that crawls the web. Googlebot crawls web pages via links. It finds and reads new and updated content and suggests what should be added to the index.

[taxiongo]

Googlebot is the web crawler that Google employs to gather information and create a searchable index of the web. Googlebot has mobile and desktop crawlers, as well as news, image, and video crawlers.

[juliaalan]

It’s interesting to think of Googlebots as virtual spiders crawling about the vast internet. The reality is much less exciting since it is simply a powerful computer program constantly trawling the entirety of the web and finding relevant information for Google to index.


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[tbsind]

We can say that a Google Bot is one kind of Google software that will collect the data for the website and send it to Google.