Google has announced a new Googlebot, a new Google crawler, named Google-Extended that you can use to control if your content can help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs or future Google AI products. So if you want to disallow Bard from using your content, you specify so in your robots.txt with the user … Read more
Google has fixed a typo in their crawler documentation that inadvertently misidentified one of their crawlers. In general, this is a minor issue but it’s a major issue for SEOs and publishers who depend on the documentation to set firewall rules. Failure to notate the correct data could cause a website to inadvertently block a … Read more
At least 69 of the 1,000 most popular websites in the world have blocked GPTBot, the new web crawler OpenAI introduced Aug. 7, according to a new analysis. And the percentage of sites is increasing by about 5% per week, according to AI content and plagiarism service Originality.ai. Why we care. To block or not … Read more
If there’s one thing most ChatGPT users want, it would be up-to-**** and more accurate artificial intelligence or AI content. Well, OpenAI has been hard at work to make this happen. Just recently, the tech giant released documentation about its own web crawler. Called GPTBot, OpenAI plans to use this crawler to help “AI ****** … Read more
OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, have published information on its web crawler named GPTBot. You can now see if OpenAI is crawling your site, how much so, and you can disallow access to all or part of your site with the robots.txt protocol. You can see the documentation for GPTBot over here. User agent token: … Read more
OpenAI has published information about its new web crawler named GPTBot. You can read the documentation on GPTBot over here. What is GPTBot. GPTBot is OpenAI’s web crawler, used by OpenAI to crawl the web, consume knowledge for its AI features, such as ChatGPT, and use that to provide AI-generaterd answers to your questions. Useragent. … Read more
Google has released a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named Google-InspectionTool. This new Google crawler will be how Google identifies crawling activity for the crawler used by Google Search’s testing tools, like the rich results test and Google Search Console’s URL inspection tool. Google-InspectionTool. Google posted details about this new crawler in its help document … Read more
Google has added a new user agent to the list of Google crawlers, Googlebots. This one is named Google-InspectionTool and goes under both the Googlebot user agent and also the name Google-InspectionTool. Google added this to the Google crawler help document over here. It says, “Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such … Read more
Google has now added new details that explain the three categories its Google crawlers fall into, they include Googlebot, special-case crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. In addition, Google now lists a JSON formatted file containing the list of IP addresses each of these different crawler types use. Types of Google crawlers. At the top of this … Read more
Google has launched GoogleOther, a new web crawler. GoogleOther will be used internally by various Google teams to crawl the public web, said Google’s Gary Illyes on LinkedIn. It respects the same directives and protocols of the main Googlebot crawler and will free up some resources for the main Googlebot crawlers. GoogleOther. Google added GoogleOther … Read more
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