what is the purpose of googlebot?

[vkumar]

Hello friends,

what is the purpose of googlebot?

[John-Smith]

Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine, that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches. Crawlers can also be used for automating maintenance tasks on a Web site, such as checking links or validating HTML code.

[WoodsPainting]

Googlebot is a web crawling software search bot (also known as a spider or webcrawler) that gathers the web page information used to supply Google search engine results pages (SERP). Googlebot collects documents from the web to build Google's search index. ... Googlebot begins with a list generated from previous sessions.

[ritesh3592]

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. We use a huge set of computers to fetch (or "crawl") billions of pages on the web.

[sophiawils59]

Googlebot is used to search the Internet. It uses Web crawling software by Google, which allows them to scan, find, add and index new web pages. In other words, “Googlebot is the name of the search engine spider for Google

[RH-Calvin]

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.