Love Letters from Googlebot
In a mildly weird fashion, Google answered some questions regarding HTTP status codes and "if-modified-since" from users who were either…
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Googlebot Gets Candid
Googlebot is like a dream which knows us all , , and soul. Here in this interview, Maile Ohye as…
GoogleBot Crawls CSS Files
Barry Schwartz spotted a thread in the Cre8site Forums discussing a report by Ekstreme.com that Googlebot requested a CSS file.…
Googlebot Wields New Crawl Tools
Bringing your website into the voluminous BigTable of Google's index involves sending out pieces of code, referred to as spiders…
When Was the Last Time You Saw the Googlebot?
The Google crew cleared up a bit about how the Googlebot caches webpages. The date at the cached page reflects…
Quoth The Googlebot, “304!”
The latest news from Google Webmaster Central disclosed how the search engine's spider saves a webmaster from unnecessary bandwidth costs.
Matt Cutts Reins In Googlebot
Ahead of Search Engine Strategies 2006 conference in San Jose, Google's best-known engineer suggested some basic approaches to making a…
GoogleBot the “Spider of Doom”
A funny story is circulating in tech circles about how Googlebot inadvertently destroyed the database of a content management system…
Playing in Googlebot’s Sandbox with Slurp, Teoma & MSNbot Spiders Display Distinctly Differing Personalities
There has been endless webmaster speculation and worry about the so-called "Google Sandbox" - the indexing time delay for new…
What’s Up With Google Calendar?
Editors Note: There are rumors circulating that Google is contemplating the release of web-based calendar, which would perform much like…
