Editing Googlebot (section)

{{short description|Web crawler used by Google}}
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|website                    = [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/googlebot Googlebot FAQ]
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'''Googlebot''' is the [[web crawler]] software used by [[Google]] that collects documents from the [[World Wide Web|web]] to build a searchable index for the [[Google Search]] engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182072?hl=en|title=Googlebot|date=2019-03-11|website=Google|access-date=2019-03-11}}</ref>