Google has fixed a typo in their crawler documentation that inadvertently misidentified one of their crawlers.
In general, this is a minor issue but it’s a major issue for SEOs and publishers who depend on the documentation to set firewall rules.
Failure to notate the correct data could cause a website to inadvertently block a legitimate Google crawler.
Google Inspection Tool
The typo is in the section of the documentation about the Google Inspection Tool.
This is an important crawler that is sent out to a website in response to two prompts.
1. URL inspection functionality in Search Console
When a user wants to check within search console whether a webpage is indexed or to request indexing, Google’s system responds with the Google Inspection Tool crawler.
The URL inspection tool offers the following functionality:
- See the status of a URL in the Google index
- Inspect a live URL
- Request indexing for a URL
- View a rendered version of the page
- View loaded resources, JavaScript…
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