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Data as of Oct 20, 2026Based on 49,687 AI responses
Reviewed by Dimitry Apollonsky
Googlebot is Google's web crawler that discovers and indexes web pages to power Google Search, using robots.txt, sitemaps, canonical URLs, and redirects to control crawling and indexing. The developer documentation covers how to optimize sites for crawling and indexing, including JavaScript SEO, AMP, mobile-first indexing, structured data, metadata, and page experience signals such as Core Web Vitals. It also provides guidance and tools to manage crawl rate, request recrawls, diagnose crawl issues, remove content, and understand how ranking and search features work.
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across Googlebot’s markets · since Jul 5
Each engine’s share of its own answers across Googlebot’s markets · since Jul 5
