Google has two crawlers, each with a different function, to assure that it’s index of the web is both deep and up to date. Today’s Search Illustrated shows the function of each of these content discovery utilities:

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  • http://www.techmentat.com Tech Mentat

    Is it 2 bots each with 1 type of crawl or 1 bot with 2 different types of crawl? I ask b/c if it’s 2 bots then it would be possible to disallow the “fresh” bot to stagnant content and have it only focus on frequently updated pages/directories.

  • http://www.suzukikenichi.com/blog/ 海外SEOアナリスト

    Very interesting article.
    I wonder how we can get benefit from this technical info on SEO.

    Do you have any idea?

 

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