What is Googlebot?

Googlebot collects documents from the web to build Google’s search index. Through constantly gathering documents, the software discovers new pages and updates to existing pages. Googlebot uses a distributed design spanning many computers so it can grow as the web does.
 
Googlebot? Web crawler? Spider? Huh?
All those terms mean the same thing: it’s a bot that crawls the web. Googlebot crawls web pages via links. It finds and reads new and updated content and suggests what should be added to the index. The index, of course, is Google’s brain. This is where all the knowledge resides. Google uses a ton of computers to send their crawlers to every nook and cranny of the web to find these pages and to see what’s on them. Googlebot is Google’s web crawler or robot and other search engines have their own.
 
Googlebot is the software used by Google to fetch and render web documents collectively. They crawl each web page and its contents and store them in the Google index under the relevant keywords of the website. Google bots are also known as Spiders and Crawlers.
 
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Googlebot is the search bot software used by Google, which collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine.

If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot, or another well-behaved spider, they can do so with the appropriate directives in a robots.txt file, or by adding the meta tag <meta name="Googlebot" content="nofollow" /> to the web page.
 
Googlebot is a Google automated program that is responsible to read through webpage source and provide information to search engines. They are used to cache and index webpages in search engines.
 
Googlebot uses sitemaps and databases of links discovered during previous crawls to determine where to go next. Whenever the crawler finds new links on a site, it adds them to the list of pages to visit next. If Googlebot finds changes in the links or broken links, it will make a note of that so the index can be updated. The program determines how often it will crawl pages. To make sure Googlebot can correctly index your site, you need to check its crawlability. If your site is available to crawlers they come around often.
 
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