Googlebot (Google crawler) Updates

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Today, we are happy to announce that Googlebot now runs the latest Chromium rendering engine (74 at the time of this post) when rendering pages for Search. Moving forward, Googlebot will regularly update its rendering engine to ensure support for latest web platform features.

The new evergreen Googlebot

 

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Previously it was running on Chromium 41. So they taken a big step.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1301766860812288000

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1301800126541897728

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Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2.

Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2

https://twitter.com/x/status/1306563662740705282

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