What is Googlebot?

Googlebot is actually a spider which functions much like your web browser, by sending a request to a web server for a web page, downloading the entire page, then handing it off to Google’s indexer. ...
 
Google bot is the search bot software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. Google bots discovers pages by harvesting all of the links on every page it finds. It then follows these links to other web pages.
 
Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.
 
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