What is a web crawler, really? | Search Off the Record



In this episode of Search Off The Record, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman take a deep dive into crawling the web: what is a web crawler, and how does it really work? Listen along as the Search team is joined by an expert web developer in the SEO community, Dave Smart, for an in-depth and technical discussion of all things crawling, and maybe dispel some myths along the way.

Resources:
Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr070-transcript

Managing your crawl budget → https://goo.gle/3IzRZxl
Dave Smart on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3wPSuRA
Tame the Bots → https://goo.gle/4cfCQ1P
Search Central Help Forum → https://goo.gle/sc-forum
Indexing API docs → https://goo.gle/3v8yVU0

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Subscribe to Google Search Central Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

Search Off The Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

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Speaker: Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman

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10 thoughts on “What is a web crawler, really? | Search Off the Record”

  1. Web crawler looks like a millipede and runs across the forks . It troubles me to sele them this huge being used to violate women an children there's pics in my kids an pics of said bugs on folks who are being hamed

  2. Hello! Tell me why Google search was the best a few months ago, but now it’s no longer clear how to work? I can't find the information I need, although I know that the Internet has answers to my questions.

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