Jul 14, 2020 · Google's SMS app on Android uses this user agent when it crawls the shared URL to generate a preview inside the chat. This is usually a good ...

You can check if a web crawler really is Googlebot (or another Google user agent). Follow these steps to verify that Googlebot is the crawler.

Sep 15, 2020 · When a user shares a URL on Google+ or an app writes an app activity, Google+ attempts to fetch the content and create a snippet to provide a ...

Mar 8, 2021 · This is a general snippet fetcher that Google has used to display previews of links once they are pasted into Google Plus, however, this is also ...

Aug 8, 2021 · It's not their search engine crawler, but it seems to be related to preview images in the context of their SMS application.

Google crawlers discover and scan websites. This overview will help you understand the common Google crawlers including the Googlebot user agent.

Mar 27, 2024 · The ususal google-bot at 66.249.66.x asks for all my PDF files regularly. Today's hits have google-proxy-(IP).google.com host names.

Aug 9, 2023 · Yes, it was, but not anymore. Stack Overflow had been blocking OpenAI's web crawler, GPTBot from crawling the sites by utilizing the ...