Cloudflare data shows AI crawlers exploding, publishers blocking bots, and many platforms sending little traffic back.

Google's Search Relations team provides insights into controlling Googlebot's interactions with webpages on the latest 'Search Off The Record' podcast. You can't block Googlebot from crawling specific ...

Global internet traffic rose 19% in 2025, with Google and Facebook once again cementing their positions as the two most ...

Googlebot fraud happens when malicious bots pose as one of Google’s crawlers to sneak past your security rules, allowing them broader crawling and scraping access than typical traffic. From there, ...

Google announced that starting in December Google will update Google’s user agent to represent the version of Chrome that GoogleBot is running. It is important to update any code you may have that may ...

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 webcrawler, Googlebot, is changing the way it is identified when it accesses websites. Googlebot currently pretends to be an Apple iPhone running iOS 8.3 when it visits websites, but after ...

Google updated their Googlebot Developers Support Page to reflect that Google is now able to try downloading pages via the latest HTTP/2 protocol. This is effective November 2020. The Googlebot ...

Google operates a crawler 'Googlebot' that mechanically acquires documents and images on the web and creates a database in order to grasp the world's websites that exist innumerably. Googlebot ...

Google announced that starting in November 2020 it may begin to crawl some sites over HTTP/2. Google wrote "today we're announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over ...