Googlebot

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Googlebot

Original author(s)	Google
Type	Web crawler
Website	Googlebot FAQ

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).^[1]