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Googlebot

Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that 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 (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user).

Behavior, Mediabot & Inspection Tool Crawlers

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Behavior

Robots.txtWebmasterSpiderMeta tagWeb servers
15 related topics

Mediabot

Google AdSenseContextually relevant
2 related topics

Inspection Tool Crawlers

Web server directory index
1 related topics

Overview

Web crawlerGoogleWebGoogle Search
4 related topics

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Original author
Google
Type
Web crawler

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Overview

Behavior

Mediabot

Inspection Tool Crawlers

Advanced semantic analysis

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Googlebot

Nodes27
Edges26
Triples25
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
Components1

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Googlebot

Top relations

related to Behavior · 8
Googlebot → Google, Google's, Googlebot Desktop, Googlebot Mobile, However, If, The, This
related to Inspection Tool Crawlers · 8
Googlebot → Apart, Google Search Console, InspectionTool, It, Rich Result Test, Search, URL, Web
related to External links · 2
Googlebot → Google's, Googlebot FAQ
Original author · 1
Googlebot → Google
Type · 1
Googlebot → Web crawler
Website · 1
Googlebot → Googlebot FAQ
is a · 1
Googlebot → web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

web google crawler crawlers used website content search user mediabot links crawl desktop mobile agent string page pages index engine

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
GooglebotOriginal authorGoogle1.00infobox
GooglebotTypeWeb crawler1.00infobox
GooglebotWebsiteGooglebot FAQ1.00infobox
Googlebotis aweb crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine0.90text
ECMAScript 6 featuresinstance ofensuring support for modern browser capabilities0.80text
the Rich Result Testinstance ofInspection Tool CrawlersInspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools0.80text
URL inspection in Google Search Consoleinstance ofInspection Tool CrawlersInspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools0.80text
Googlebotrelated to BehaviorGooglebot Desktop0.60section
Googlebotrelated to BehaviorGooglebot Mobile0.60section
Googlebotrelated to BehaviorHowever0.60section
Googlebotrelated to BehaviorGoogle0.60section
Googlebotrelated to BehaviorThis0.60section

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