Googlebot News
Googlebot News is a search engine crawler run by Google Inc..
- Operator
- Google Inc.
- Type
- Search bot
- Official page
- developers.google.com
- In Vireo
- Excluded, reported under Search engines
User agent
Requests from Googlebot News carry user agents like these:
Googlebot-NewsGooglebot-News (2.3.3, ruby 1.9.3 (2013-11-22))Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):
Googlebot-NewsAnyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.
How Vireo counts Googlebot News
Vireo keeps requests from Googlebot News out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Search engines, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.
Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Googlebot News's user agents.
Sources
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