What is Googlebot?

[rohit]

What is Googlebot?

[borgninestallon]

Simple definition for Google bot - Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

For more information about Google bot read this Google article https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182072?hl=en

[brightway89]

Googlebot is Google's web crawling robot, which finds and retrieves pages on the web and hands them off to the Google indexer.

[Witho1992]

Google bot is a technique used by google to crawl the website, to create and indexing link to search results. Google, but follow HREF links and SRC links. Google, but can execute Java script and Ajax coding.

[arianagrand]

Googlebot is actually a spider which functions much like your web browser, by sending a request to a web server for a web page, downloading the entire page, then handing it off to Google’s indexer. Googlebot finds pages in two ways: through an add URL form, www.google.com/addurl.html, and through finding links by crawling the web....

[creativesquad]

Googlebot is the search bot software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine.

[joshaidan]

Google bot or robot or search engine, these are names of Google bot and this is usually to search queries and get their answer with database.

[Rajiv_UDB]

Google crawling bot of Google which crawl data of websites and index accordingly.

[rohit]

thanx friends for your answers.

[guptaabhijit318]

Google bot is the search bot software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. Google bots discovers pages by harvesting all of the links on every page it finds. It then follows these links to other web pages.

[revasharma2]

Googlebot is the search engine algorithm. Googlebot crawl page and index the web page into search engine.

[Jason P]

What is Googlebot?

Googlebot is software or technique of crawling. We can also say that it is search bot software or spider of Google that gathers new and updated information from the web and adds in Google index.

[Teamwork]

Googlebot is the search bot software used by Google.

[hopy]

Googlebot uses crawling robots to collect documents from the Web to build a searchable index for Google.

[jaysh4922]

Spiders,Crawlers, or google Bots are just programs the search engines use to index the content found on the World Wide Web.

[Sophiacalvin]

Googlebot is the search bot software used by Google, which accumulates docs from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine.

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[jackthomas087]

I think you can use robots.txt to tell googlebot what to index, but i dont think you can tell it to read only a specific part of a webpage. See if the google website has any information...

[ackerlee]

Google Bot is a crawler or spiders of Google for indexing and crawling urls.

[ThomasBunch]

google bot is a technique used by google to crawl websites. google bot have ability like humens to read website and links. It crawls website to make a search result index for users. It crawls only good quality and healthy contents.

[godwin]

Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler and a mobile crawler.

[jesica]

Googlebot is the general name for two different types of crawlers: a desktop crawler that simulates a user on desktop, and a mobile crawler that simulates a user on a mobile device. Your website will probably be crawled by both Googlebot Desktop and Googlebot Smartphone.