Google has up to date its assist documentation particular to Google Crawlers and added the Google Security crawler to the listing of particular case crawlers. This crawler will not be new however Google determined so as to add it as a result of they “acquired many questions” over the previous yr about this crawler.
Google Security’s crawler goes underneath the complete person agent string of “Google-Security.”
The Google-Security person agent handles abuse-specific crawling, resembling malware discovery for publicly posted hyperlinks on Google properties.
Google-Security person agent ignores robots.txt guidelines.
Why does it ignore robots.txt? I assume as a result of it has to verify pages and directories that may not be protected as a way to defend its searchers and customers?
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