Google's AI crawler, Google-Extended, the crawler it uses for Gemini and other related AI services, does render itself and can render JavaScript, just like Googlebot, Google's main web search crawler.

With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler. Google made a series of updates to its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers ...

Websites need a new audit framework that accounts for AI crawlers, rendering limitations, structured data, and accessibility ...

Understanding the difference between search bots and scrapers is crucial for SEO. Website crawlers fall into two categories: This guide breaks down first-party crawlers that can improve your site’s ...

Many Google teams use the crawling infrastructure. There are hundreds of crawlers that Googlers use. Low-volume crawlers are often not documented due to practical limitations. Only major crawlers are ...

For the first time, CISPA researcher Aleksei Stafeev presents a study that systematizes the knowledge about tools for the automated analysis of websites, so-called web crawlers, in the field of web ...