Google’s Search Engine Robot
Search engines continuously scan the internet in order to index new websites and pages and to present the most current results to users in their search yield. Google’s scanning robot is called Googlebot, and it scans new websites that have been brought to its attention by website administrators. The robot scans the website of the new pages, checks the links, records and updates these changes, it then relies on this new analysis to update Google’s index.
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